Comments on: New Platform: co.labr8 - distributed creativity! http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:37:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Stamatios http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-2107 Stamatios Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:00:16 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-2107 Dr. Tosh, are you around? Dr. Tosh, are you around?

]]> By: Stamatios http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1812 Stamatios Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:24:52 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1812 That would be great! I have searched the entire Google patent database using multiple keywords, including the company's name, the founder's name and 100 descriptives and i cannot see anything. I cannot say I am really excited about co.labr8.com either. Based on the description, the existing patented method can be manipulated to avoid infringement. Also, from a strictly business perspective, it does not currently make any sense for either community to engage in a proxy fight given the fact that neither one has justified any content/output related value that could attract serious dollars. I would rather suit you once you have made $millions using my method, or, I would think as a business mind, find a way to merge the two teams since the platforms appear to be working very similarly and the way the leaders are steering the ships are common. Which brings us to the interesting fact that none of the innovation communities out there, independent or branded, has a methodology that really breaks the rules and becomes the golden egg that everyone wants a piece of. I totally disagree with the member engagement and ranking strategies/algorithms and with the way the infrastructure is built. Also, the founding vision is not clear. Could you please send me an invite to linked-in or any other network you are member in so we can take this off line? Seems like we are in sync regarding a lot of this. Stamatios is my real name. That would be great! I have searched the entire Google patent database using multiple keywords, including the company’s name, the founder’s name and 100 descriptives and i cannot see anything. I cannot say I am really excited about co.labr8.com either. Based on the description, the existing patented method can be manipulated to avoid infringement. Also, from a strictly business perspective, it does not currently make any sense for either community to engage in a proxy fight given the fact that neither one has justified any content/output related value that could attract serious dollars. I would rather suit you once you have made $millions using my method, or, I would think as a business mind, find a way to merge the two teams since the platforms appear to be working very similarly and the way the leaders are steering the ships are common. Which brings us to the interesting fact that none of the innovation communities out there, independent or branded, has a methodology that really breaks the rules and becomes the golden egg that everyone wants a piece of. I totally disagree with the member engagement and ranking strategies/algorithms and with the way the infrastructure is built. Also, the founding vision is not clear. Could you please send me an invite to linked-in or any other network you are member in so we can take this off line? Seems like we are in sync regarding a lot of this. Stamatios is my real name.

]]> By: Dr Tosh http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1795 Dr Tosh Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:31:50 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1795 Don't have it handy, however the structure of the business model is the same: projects in co.labr8 are called sparks in kluster, ideas are called amps and ideapoints are called watts. Here is the breakdown: Submit a project (spark), community is involved in adding ideas (amps) and actively through voting or trading chooses a winning idea and then the participants of the winning idea get rewarded ideapoints (watts) based on their individual contributions and actions. The software determines through various methods of analysis the weighting of the payouts. This is covered in the co.labr8 patent. I'll dig it up. Don’t have it handy, however the structure of the business model is the same: projects in co.labr8 are called sparks in kluster, ideas are called amps and ideapoints are called watts. Here is the breakdown: Submit a project (spark), community is involved in adding ideas (amps) and actively through voting or trading chooses a winning idea and then the participants of the winning idea get rewarded ideapoints (watts) based on their individual contributions and actions. The software determines through various methods of analysis the weighting of the payouts. This is covered in the co.labr8 patent. I’ll dig it up.

]]> By: Stamatios http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1789 Stamatios Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:53:44 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1789 where is co.labr8 patent? do you have any keywords i can look it up? where is co.labr8 patent? do you have any keywords i can look it up?

]]> By: Stamatios http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1787 Stamatios Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:35:27 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1787 Right on! That was my first comment after I played around with their tools for 10mins. I recommended that they should try to come up with something more original or risk being perceived as a "me too venture". If I judge from the interface, usability and capabilities, I am very confident they did not invest time thinking about their methodology, member engagement and ranking. Recruitment and communications still look like they belong to the previous decade. The interface looks modern but I am not sure if this is the right way to go. Innovation communities need to attract a diverse audience in order to cover multiple verticals. Unless these guys are only interested in 16-24 year old surfers and computer geeks, stay-home moms and senior professionals will not find the GUI that appealing, limiting the communities potential right at launch. Right on! That was my first comment after I played around with their tools for 10mins. I recommended that they should try to come up with something more original or risk being perceived as a “me too venture”. If I judge from the interface, usability and capabilities, I am very confident they did not invest time thinking about their methodology, member engagement and ranking. Recruitment and communications still look like they belong to the previous decade. The interface looks modern but I am not sure if this is the right way to go. Innovation communities need to attract a diverse audience in order to cover multiple verticals. Unless these guys are only interested in 16-24 year old surfers and computer geeks, stay-home moms and senior professionals will not find the GUI that appealing, limiting the communities potential right at launch.

]]> By: Dr Tosh http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1782 Dr Tosh Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:49:10 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1782 Sadly, Kluster isn't doing anything original - and is close enough that they may be violating patent(s) from co.labr8.com. Sadly, Kluster isn’t doing anything original - and is close enough that they may be violating patent(s) from co.labr8.com.

]]> By: Stamatios http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1779 Stamatios Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:16:45 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1779 By the way. There is a new innovation community: kluster.com. I took a look and it is interesting, yet not much different from existing ventures, including co.labr8. take a look at www.kluster.com By the way. There is a new innovation community: kluster.com. I took a look and it is interesting, yet not much different from existing ventures, including co.labr8. take a look at http://www.kluster.com

]]> By: Stamatios http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1778 Stamatios Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:14:38 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1778 Thanks for the info. It is interesting that they did not sent any communications to current members about that. Suddenly, the page went blank. Do you know if they finally got funding on this? Thanks for the info. It is interesting that they did not sent any communications to current members about that. Suddenly, the page went blank. Do you know if they finally got funding on this?

]]> By: Dr Tosh http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1776 Dr Tosh Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:50:52 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1776 @Stamatios Last year they were in "preview" mode and they are now making preparations for fulling opening this spring. They'll be back in a few weeks. :) @Stamatios

Last year they were in “preview” mode and they are now making preparations for fulling opening this spring. They’ll be back in a few weeks. :)

]]> By: Stamatios http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1761 Stamatios Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:56:52 +0000 http://www.openinnovators.net/new-platform-colabr8-distributed-creativity/#comment-1761 Hi all, Do you know what happened to this venture? The platform is not active anymore and i have received no notification of anything. Have they gone out of business? thanks in advance, Stamatios Hi all,

Do you know what happened to this venture? The platform is not active anymore and i have received no notification of anything. Have they gone out of business?

thanks in advance,
Stamatios

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