It’s always fun to see how advertising jumps in the game of co-creation. Votervoter.com, which is run by Wide Orbit, is an interesting take on using YouTube-like participation. It allows you to create and publish your own political ads targeted to long tail segments.

I’m curious to see if they’ll be able to make money by most of what YouTube offers for free. I want to think they’ll succeed, but as I was forced to enter all of my information, phone number, etc, just to register, I bailed out. I get enough junk mail as it is.

I saw this the other day on Core77 and although I find most of the picture frames pretty goofy, their use of the ZPrinter is very cool. As I watched the YouTube video, I had the same feeling that I did about 15 years ago when I first saw what you could do with Photoshop – that’s magic! I want it.

Granted, the ZPrinter’s price range of $19-50K will surely keep it off most folk’s Christmas list, but that’s what makes a company like Jujups so smart. It’s going to be a while before these are priced to a place where consumers can by them. In the mean time, I think there’s a tremendous market for companies to offer the production services for interested and creative people.

But please, put some thought into the user experience. The Jujup site doesn’t even begin to represent the power of what they have to offer and I’d hate to see them fail for that reason.

After a slight postponement, the Beta version of the CrowdSpirit platform will be launched very soon. Yesterday, invitations to the early subscribers were sent announcing the launch. Since Lionel David (CrowdSpirit’s founder) assured me things are going very well now, I expect the beta platform to be up and running by next week.

Can a large crowd co-develop electronic products from scratch? From product idea to selling the final product? Check out the following Inkling Market, and buy shares or go short depending on your expectations: Inkling Market about CrowdSpirit.

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