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• wikidPad Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else ou can think of to write down.
• Dell IdeaStorm building an online community that brings all of us closer to the creative side of technology by allowing you to share ideas and collaborate with one another.
• UserVoice, Customer Feedback 2.0 adds structure to feedback and reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with our users — It creates a market around good ideas so we get more quality than quantity.
  • Used by CloudSH, personally submitted ideas with it
  • Why We Love UserVoice by Marshall Kirkpatrick for ReadWriteWeb, December 5, 2008
• MindFrenzy provides a place to get feedback and advice about an idea.
• Design Engineering Lab, online creative laboratory dedicated to fast prototyping (based on MIT fablab)
• IdeaConnection : Collaborative Problem Solving ThinkSpace™, Technology Transfers, buy and sell innovations and inventions
• ThinkBall Collaborative software that helps you grow ideas
• Ideaspace Thought Support Software
• Ideanomics communication portal for Knowligent "IP Management Software"
• The Goo helps you stick "Things" together in your working environment.
  • Found while searching for the term "meta-idea" : Trexy Search Engine: Meta Idea Storm
  • seems to be very programming (even Perl programming) oriented, no visual interface so far according to the tour.
• BrainReactions » BrainReactions : Fill your innovation pipeline with successful ideas from your most creative customers.
  • "Co-create products, Create marketing campaign, Brainstorm new patentable ideas, Mobilize intellectual property by creating new applications for your technologies."
• BrainReactions.net : Online Brainstorming and Idea Management Software
  • Online Brainstorming Rooms : Your space to generate and manage ideas
• Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service is a community that helps people to get the most from the products they use, and where companies are encouraged to get real with their customers.
• Global : Ideas : Bank which even use the metaphor of the "Seed (An initial idea concept)"! Started in 1995 according to About Us - Our history.
• Imaginatik - Idea Management, Innovation Management software, open innovation and collaborative innovation
• Innova (suggested by Arnaud who presented "La creativite" by Tremplin UTC, cf Xye.SeanceAlternatives)
• Innovactor, a french group on innovation
• About InvestorIdeas.com - global investor research resource ** We provide tools, resources and services to create a thriving global investment community including : Investor Research Tools, Publicly Traded Company Investor Awareness Tools, Private Industry Sector Branding and Advertising, Global Business Marketplace Matching Entrepreneurs and Investors, Investment Industry Partnering and Collaboration, Content Partnership Opportunities and more.
• Open Innovation : Innovation Management, 2001-2008
  • linked with MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
• kluster: new breed of group decision-making tool that helps you bubble-up new ideas, identify the best ones, and make better decisions.
• IdeasProject by Nokia
  • This site makes the best and most insightful contributions and connections from thinkers across the digital world available. Over time, we plan to add more content and contributors, as well as build in more capabilities to enable a deeper level of participation site visitors.
• whisper-labs
• tori innovations (Finland)
• Integrated Innovation Management Suites in Get Satisfaction Leads Among Idea Aggregators, RWW, March 2009
• Ideas by Creativity Pool is the home of future innovation and tomorrow's most (in)famous inventions.
• Borgger (began in August 2008, out of a private Beta in April 2009)
• Craftbits.com Christmas Crafts | Handmade Gift Ideas | DIY Projects
• TATIN Project by UTC
  • presented during TouchCamp in Compiegne, December 2009
  • Celine Mougenot Post-doc Fellow & Project coordinator from January to May 2009
    • email sent (17/12/09)
• Widilik The creation community
  • "the 1st online collaboration community in industrial creation"
• Pepsi Refresh Project
  • in 2 phases
    • Submit idea: 2/1 to 2/15
    • Voting starts: 3/1 to 3/31
• Sell Your Designs Online SYDO
  • online marketplace where new and emerging products can be bought and sold individually.
• iBridge Network University Research and Technology Transfer
  • not-for-profit initiative by the Kauffman Foundation
• Planet Eureka Tour the Marketplace
  • selling innovation reports (thanks to their Merwyn Business Simulation tool) as "The cost for one report is $2,000" while the marketplace itself is free
  • see also isee NetSim listed in CoEvolutionTools#Simulation regarding business simulations
• Brightidea On-Demand Innovation Management, started in 1999
• Ma ligne, Mes idées from Vous et la RATP
• InventionDB Project Database free project-blogging engine built on top of an interconnected database of people, organizations, projects, resources and vendors.
• Startup Idea Generator by midVentures
  • probably inspired by Roland Moreno's Radoteur and his company Innovatron
  • SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator using context-free grammar, MIT CSAIL 2005
  • snarXiv by David Simmons-Duffin at Harvard, source included
    • The Real Theorem Generator: a Context Free Grammar also by David Simmons-Duffin 2009
• hackerspace-os dedicated to Hacker Spaces
  • more generally Hackerspace Software, partly implementing Hackerspace Design Patterns with its Wish List
• One Billion Minds Innovation Exchange
  • free, open platform for Early Stage Innovators, Angel Investors and Gurus to showcase ideas, get to know each other and create a bright new world.
  • by OpenBusiness platform for the exploration and analysis of business trends accelerated by the dis-intermediating power of the Internet. Areas covered range from Open Source Software, Web 2.0, Crowd Sourcing, Co-Creation to Open Innovation.
• BootB The Official Online Marketplace for Creative Services - Unlimited Creativity
• IdeaScale Idea Management - Innovation Management - Crowdsourcing - Suggestion Box - Customer Feedback
  • Collect ideas from your customers, give them a platform to vote, the most important ideas bubble to the top.
  • Federal Agency Ideascale Dashboard OpenGov Tracker
  • Broadband.gov - by IdeaScale
• thewiki4opentech.org TechnologicalWiki, find technical information and discuss about projects and ideas.
  • The Wiki for Open Technologies: How to share your projects and knowledge, FOSDEM February 2010
    • min2 the explicit goal is to empower innovation for the free and open community
• ShareYourBrain online collaborative brainstorming and idea generation platform.
• W3C Incubator Activity innovative ideas for specifications, guidelines, and applications that are not (or not yet) clear candidates as Web standards developed through the more thorough process afforded by the W3C Recommendation Track.
• Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion with InnoCentive
• bubbl.us free web application for brainstorming online
• data.gov.uk/ideas Wouldn’t it be good if...?
• Google Moderator tool for collecting ideas, questions, and recommendations from audiences of any size.
  • API
• http://www.innovaro.com/
• Government Innovators Network: A Portal for Democratic Governance and Innovation marketplace of ideas and examples of government innovation.
• http://trillennium.com/
• Idealink Open, Idea Management Software from BrainBank Inc
  • for companies that want to take advantage of an open innovation workflow.
• I-Nova, software for research process and innovation
• ViaNoveo software editor for innovation project management
  • ISMA360 the only systemic method for innovation management
• quirky Submit A Product Idea
• Orchidea Innovations Oy by PinkCat Innovation, Symbion Scince Park in Finland
• Kindling Idea Management by Arc90
  • How to Make Time for Innovation: Kindling's Idea Recommendation Engine by Klint Finley, ReadWriteEnterprise Enterprise 2010
• Spigit Innovation management, Idea management, Social Networking Software, Crowdsourcing
• http://www.IdeaValue.com
• Cohere >>> make the connection visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas.
• OpenIDEO Where people design better, together
• SmartLab at SmartSystem
• inova
  • using correlation-engine (stats + semantic) and founded in 2001 by Gilles Toulemonde and David Carteret
• All Our Ideas - A Suggestion Box for the Digital Age
  • research project to develop a new form of social data collection that combines the best features of quantitative and qualitative methods.
  • Princeton/Google grants
  • https://github.com/allourideas
• IdeaTorrent open innovation software
• Sparkmuse, a community to discuss, refine, and act on innovative tech ideas.
• Crowdstorms Social Mind Mapping Network & Associative Reference Tool
• Darwinator.com tool for running idea tournaments
• OVO Innovation Software
  • 2009 OVO Software will no longer be available for licensing or purchase.
• The Internet Wishlist #theiwl
• Idea Sandbox, Remarkable Ideas To Grow Your Business
  • mainly brainstorming consultancy
• IdeaShower.com
• eads.com/thinkbank

Visualization

• radar with in the center the IDEAL idea box
  • around it Seedea and all the alternatives
  • have a version over time to see visually the evolution and the pace
• Comparison matrix pondered by
  • features popularity
  • evolution pace (estimated time to market of new features)

Sources

• hand-made list (large red matrix : E:\Work\pensine\a integrer\alternatives grid # of 4.jpg)
• Graphic Webbing Software Tools for the Center for Accessible Technology
• del.icious links by Utopiah
• RSS feeds
• Joel's friend the 22/08/08
  • InnovationLabs
  • by Nathan Myrvochld (from Microsoft) writer of the NewYoekerMag
  • idea of patents fiesta where people are gathered to patent the result of their brainstorming
• Logiciels d'Innovation Participative: étude Forrester, opening innovation by bluenove, June 2009
• http://delicious.com/tag/innovation
• http://www.crunchbase.com/tag/innovation
• Compete including Site Profiles to Analyze traffic/engagement data

In use ideas management system

• Ideas for the OpenCog project (wiki based)

Inspiration

• WikiMatrix

To do

• Find if there is something related in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Comparison_of
• Order by Alexa's rating (eventually with a nice curve)
• Try Compete : "competitive metrics for every site on the web"
• Explore Business.com listing
• potential categories
  • brand community leveraging website through feedback and suggestions
    • per brand
      • Dell IdeaStorm, Refresh Project, RATP Ma ligne Mes idées, Nokia IdeasProject
    • as framework
      • GetSatisfaction, UserVoice, ...
  • connection between experts and brands
    • Innocentive, ...
  • general design and ideas repository
    • GlobalIdeasBank, iBridge Network, Federal Agency Ideascale Dashboard...
  • tool platforms
    • BrainReactions, WikiPad, ...
• add cellular automata used in architecture
  • ask Person:Audrey? for references
  • add the reference to the artwork saw at MIT media lab with Lea
  • add GA/CA/... based from other disciplines too
  • place those on a timeline
• generated a gallery
  • http://api.browsershots.org/xmlrpc/
• check http://www.google.com/search?q=IdeasLab
• Autodesk Inventor 3D Mechanical Design and Product Simulation for Digital Prototyping
• Sponsors of Front End of Innovation US (including Inova, Innocentive, etc)