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Crowdsourcing: Is There Wisdom In A Mob?

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| Most of the offers can be broadly categorized 
| into collective intelligence, crowd-creation, 
| voting/opinion and research. Procter & 
| Gamble's NPD program Connect + Develop, My 
| Starbucks  Idea and AT&T's "Mark the spot" are 
| all great examples of collective intelligence 
| and, of course, everyone knows about Linux. 
| They harness the power of interested parties 
| to provide ideas and thoughts as they happen, 
| like a permanent, active, feedback loop.
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http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/28/crowdsourcing-att-starbucks-cmo-network-jez-frampton.html


Recent:

Big Software has duped us for decades – Part I

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| Big Software Goliaths like Oracle (ORCL),
| Microsoft (MSFT), Sybase (SY) and SAP (SAP) use
| multi-year enterprise license agreements that
| lock you into annual fees that go up, but can
| almost never be reduced. They encourage you to
| make large upfront purchases of software
| licenses by providing significant volume
| discounts. Volume discounts are common in the
| software industry and help you achieve a lower
| price-point on your software licenses and
| annual support fees. However, encouraging you
| to purchase larger quantities than you need
| often leads to “shelfware”, i.e., owning a
| whole lot of software you don’t use.
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http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/23/big-software-has-duped-us-for-decades-part-i/
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