From Social Media to Social Meduim

Have you ever heard of the saying that if you throw enough people at it you'll find a solution? OK, don't quote me on that quote since I'm not sure how it goes, but it's sayings like these that come to my mind when I hear about new business models based on crowdsourcing.

Business:
Here are two examples of companies that basically make a living off of such an idea:
Quirky and Zoybar. I really believe that there is something to be said about this kind of business model, it really seems to tap into the psyche of the newer generation that wants to have a voice in the products that are made.

Connecting:
Two newsworthy things I would like to share. First of all Facebook has finally flipped the switch on last week and the rush to personalized urls has begun. I was able to snatch mine at http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.m.crow. Stumbled on a neat little blog post about how cellphones are changing our behaviors. I thought it would be worth reading. You can find it here

Entertainment:
With the E3 hype having gone by, I went back to crawling my feeds for something interesting. I was surprised to hear of the announcement from Turbine that they were taking Dungeons & Dragons Online to a free to play model. It's not something you hear of everyday, but after reading a recent article on why they did it.

Miscellaneous:
Looks like google docs is getting some competition, and it's not an unknown brand. check out Acrobat's new site here https://acrobat.com/#/cpdf/CreatePDFBegin