Sorry for the pun.
As you may have noted from my previous posts, I’m big into mass customization and co-creation (MC/CC).  Although consumer-generated media is the buzz term of the moment, its impact on the fundamentals of capitalism will be limited.  CGM is an evolution of company/customer conversation, not a revolution of company/customer transaction.
The transactional revolution will […]

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M&M has been taking some bold moves into Web 2.0 over the pas 6 months.  Their first notable effort was to build out web-based system whereby I could customize a an M&M to look like me.  This effort was supported with traditional media.
The interface looked like this:

It was a little rough around the edges, but […]

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I went out and picked up a new copy of iLife this past weekend.  I’m not one to review softward, but the new iPhoto was a welcomed departure from the cumbersome version still found on most Macs today.  The new features are great - such as being able to view the photographs within a folder […]

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IBM’s research labs in England have been working on a new project called DIY Shopper.  The juggernaut of the computer age has teamed up with Kingfisher, a leading home improvement/DIY store in the UK and Asia, do build out a website that takes into account some of the best attributes of Web 2.0.

The new site will […]

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In our continued hunt for the holy grail of new marketing, the biz keeps getting caught up in the “bright and shiny” stuff. This has been a big part of the (blog) water-cooler conversation lately here at Ideacity and with our friends over at MIT-C3, particularly in regard to social marketing. With Facebook […]

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