Most innovation stems from conversations between people with different ideas. Web 2.0 has made it so easy for people to have their say that today people everywhere are not just consuming information but producing it, and getting together to create! We see software (Linux), games (World of Warcraft), worlds (Second Life), knowledge (Wikipedia), products and [...]

Collaboration feeds innovation, but often feels too hard to pull off. A few weeks ago I noticed Google released a ‘behind-the-scenes’ video about how a Gmail message travels around the world. Then they invited Gmail users to create and submit their own video clips to YouTube with the following simple instructions: “Someone hands the Gmail [...]

Here’s a question: Where did the mountain bike come front? Traditional thinking might suggest that it emerged either from the R&D department of a large bike manufacturer, or from the shed of a lone, slightly eccentric, entrepreneur… but neither of these is correct. It was put together, literally, by a community of Californian [...]