The following sites have covered the recent launch of CrowdSpirit, many thanks for their support

• Go2Web20.net , a directory of web 2.0 sites - we’re even on the homepage.
• Innovation Portal, a good summary of the project
• Roam4Free (Ireland)
• Best Practice Business (in German)
• Revolutioniert CrowdSpirit die Produktentwicklung? (in German)
• Le Journal du 3ième Millénaire (in French)
  
• Design et marketing web (in French)

CrowdSpirit: Using Web 2.0 to transform product creation and distribution

Today sees the launch of the first public beta of the CrowdSpirit site, an international venture based in France (Grenoble), which couples the power of crowds and the collaboration of Web 2.0 to reinvent the supply chain and product development cycle.

CrowdSpirit has been created to resolve the problem of popular consumer products taking too long to reach the market place, not always being in tune with the public’s needs and being unduly held up trying to find a route to market. Even The Beatles, JK Rowling and the inventor of the wind up radio all had significant problems setting up a supply chain to get their market leading products in front of an adoring public. It is not in the inventor’s or the public’s interest for it to be so difficult.

CrowdSpirit believes that the general public and not commercial interests are the best advisers on novel product creation and are targeting the field of electronic products to turn their revolutionary manufacturing vision into reality.

CrowdSpirit is harnessing the “power of crowds” to allow inventors and adapters of technology to take their products to market via a collaborative distribution channel which overcomes many of the difficulties that inventors have faced in the past. Furthermore this distribution channel provides opportunities for inventors, developers, distributors and manufacturers to contribute at different stages to enable the supply chain.

This is Crowdsourcing taken to the marketplace and has been hailed by Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com, as “The next wave”. Analysts believe the concept of product creation by companies that dynamically build the supply chain could be set to change the world of business. Sometimes labelled as ‘prosumerism’, Web 2.0 allows it to happen.

Web 2.0 has seen a massive generation of on-line content from blogs and video challenging traditional media companies. With the recent YouTube sale and the rapid movement of TV companies putting content on-line, Web 2.0 has only just begun. The media is, however, just one consumer space. CrowdSpirit is targeting the electronics sector initially and other sectors could follow as the Web 2.0 revolution extends outwards from on-line content through one consumer market after another.

Further Details

Business Model and the team profile

Contact: the team by email on team@crowdspirit.org, or
Tel+[33] 6 86 87 25 49

Please vote for us on Digg and Reddit

Crowdspirit was favourably reviewed on Techcrunch UK today.

Hello All, here is a first list of interesting articles that have covered our initiative:

• First of all, an interesting one on springwise
• An other very good on Hannes Treich Blog for the German community
• A last one by Fred Cavazza who has a great influence in France

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Best regards

The CrowdSpirit Team

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Have you ever wondered how products end up on the market that confuse users or are you fed up with products that seem to be designed by engineers for engineers without taking the general public into account?

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Maybe you have searched high and low for months and even your favourite retailer doesn’t stock something you particular which would make your life easier. Perhaps you just even want to change an existing product and improve it a bit. If so, then this initiative is for you.

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Our community will have the power for the first time in the history of manufacturing to be actively involved in the design, selection and the sales of highly innovative products. These products will no longer depend on big manufacturers having control over what is made and what isn’t.

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We are looking for all kind of Ideas from the community. Maybe a totally new innovative product or simple product improvement. You will be at the center of this initiative and you can chose one of several roles to play your part in this revolution. The collaborative platform is currently in design, so join the community to participate to his development in your first role as privileged beta user.

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Talk to you very soon and in the meantime, please refer this initiative to your friend. The more the community grows, the more powerful we will be able to bring our dreams to life.

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The CrowdSpirit team

The power of crowds harnessing the spirit of imagination.

Here is a list of the all the current Crowdsourcing initiatives around the world that we know of. Please comment on it and let us know of any additions. This list will help us to brainstorm for the project and learn from the experiences of others :

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• Amazon Mechanical Turk: co-ordinates the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.
• Cambrian House: “Crowdsourced software”. Have a look at the “how it works” animation to better understand the concept.
• Chumby: an “open-source” initiative on the consumer electronic product world. Chumby is a small, wifi enabled, touch screen information device that begs to be hacked.
• iConclude
• InnoCentive: R&D initiatives with customers like Procter & Gamble
• iStockphoto: is a website with over 22,000 amateur photographers who upload and distribute stock photographs
• Mycroft
• Marketocracy: to isolating top stock market investors around the world in head to head competition so they can run real mutual funds around these soon to be discovered investment super-stars
• NineSigma: R&D initiatives with customers like Unilever, Kraft, Procter & Gamble, DuPont
• Sellaband: The community finances the launch of music bands
• A Swarm of Angels: is a project to utilize a swarm of subscribers (Angels) to help fund, make, contribute, and distribute, a £1 million feature film using the Internet and all digital technologies. It aims to recruit earlier development community members with the right expertise into paid project members, film crew, and production staff.
• Threadless: an internet-based clothing retailer that sells t-shirts which have been designed by and rated by its users.
• YourEncore: R&D initiatives with customers like Eli Lilly, Boieng, Procter & Gamble
• Yet2: R&D initiatives with customers like Agfa, Bayer, Boeing, Carterpillar, Panasonic, Philips, P&G, Siemens, Sony
• Zazzle: a customized products marketplace for consumers to create apparel, posters, cards, stamps, and other products