I am getting really intrigued by the power of the masses. In fact, my future business concept will rely heavily on it. Not sure if it will work, but will definitely let u guys know. I think the most impressive present day example is Wikipedia. It is just not fathomable that a world of collaborators can actually come together and build an encyclopedia more comprehensive than the Britannica.
Democracy is about giving choice to the masses. It is an amazing political system that has enabled great advances in our modern society. Imagine providing a platform for masses to collaborate. Surely… that will be something mind boggling.
Anyway, just chanced on a really dumb idea. (BTW, do want to solemnly apologise that most of my ideas here are IT based). I guess the reason is because I am after all an IT man…. and so… errr…
I used to buy a book of quotation to refer to… and i really like it when they classified each quote according to some category, i.e. courage, success, etc…. Then i remember the flickr concept. Surely if we allow people to upload quotations based on tags… and the tag cloud concept… it might be another long tail idea.
However, just not too sure how to monetize it……