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The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real, by Anil Dash | Dashes.com

A look at a set of enabling technologies that the author believes will lead to the next big "upgrade" for the web, "where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook."

Mindless Collectives Better at Rational Decision-Making Than Brainy Individuals, by Charles Q. Choi | Scientific American

"New experiments show how ant colonies don't fall prey to irrational choices as humans sometimes do" - results could be illuminating for understanding how human "wisdom of crowds" can work.

Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples | OpenInnovators.net

List and links to many services, software, platforms, and providers for open innovation and crowdsourcing, as well as some of the companies that are using these.

Unboxed - Crowdsourcing Works, When It's Focused, by Steve Lohr | NYTimes.com

"A look at recent cases and new research suggests that open-innovation models succeed only when carefully designed for a particular task and when the incentives are tailored to attract the most effective collaborators."