Open the Pandora jukebox !

Pandora is a brand new adaptive online jukebox that suits your music tastes the more you use it.

Like Yahoo!Music (also known as Launchcast), the website gradually learns your musical tastes so as to broadcast titles you are likely to enjoy. The main difference is that you just have to enter a title you like and the system will find similar titles and explain you why it chose them (rhythm, mood, slow or fast, etc.). You can also share your customized radio stations, just like with Mercora.

Try it: it is pretty addictive !

Via Marketing & innovation

Updates:

Feb 04, 2006:

Pandora has just added new sharing and notification features, making it a little bit more cooperative.

Dec 20, 2006:

Pandora has enhanced its socializing features through additional profile information for members: musical preferences, bios, bands fan clubs, etc.

Via Techcrunch (again).

ProductWiki: when consumers have their say

A new, very innovative service is available on the Web: ProductWiki, the first product catalog that is entirely done by consumers themselves. On this site, anyone can talk about the products he/she likes, write articles and reviews, start discussions, etc. A very neat design and a great usability make contributing to the wiki a pleasant experience.

For further information, read our exclusive interview with Erik Kalviainen, co-founder of ProductWiki: leswikis.com.

Relationship Intelligence Management – a new paradigm

Cooperatics, partnering with Visionarymarketing’s Yann Gourvennec, is working on a paper on “Networking and Collaborative Work Status and Trends for the Networked Economy”. The paper, which will be released in the coming weeks, will focus on the impact of cooperative approaches connected to new networking methods and tools on the economy and the way companies do business.

Here is the executive summary of our paper:

Networking and Collaborative Work Status and Trends for the Networked Economy

By Jérôme Delacroix : (www.cooperatique.com) and Yann Gourvennec (www.visionarymarketing.com)

INTRODUCTION

The advent of Collaborative work is now well and truly established within the enterprise world. In a mid 2004 survey, analyst company IDC pointed out that their “focus group participants voted Web conferencing the most appropriate collaboration and meeting tool in 60% of everyday meetings and business processes”, and this is a clear sign that collaboration – or at least some form of it – has now become mainstream. But it’s certainly not just a matter of technology. In this article, Jerome Delacroix and Yann Gourvennec have analysed the root causes for such changes. Beyond behaviour, it is the very relationship between working habits and technology which is at the heart of this issue. When Vannevar Bush wrote his trail-blazing article on dynamic associations in 1945, he created the concept of hypertext and eventually paved the way for Berners Lee’s invention of the Web as we know it. Bush’s idea was not about creating yet another technological gizmo, it was about knowledge, about improving our access to information and our understanding. At the end of the day, hypertext made possible the growth of information networks.

Happy New Year ! Cooperatics from 2005 to 2006

First, I would like to wish you all a very happy New Year. May it bring you success and dreams come true. I’d also like to share with you what happened for Cooperatics during 2005 and some projects for 2006.

2005 was a particularly active year for Cooperatics. The traffic of the French blog, Cooperatique.com, created in June 2004, has dramatically increased from a monthly 1,500 pages in February to more than 10,000 pages in December 2005. This can be explained by a growing interest for cooperation and its technologies as well as by a series of events more directly connected to Cooperatics.

Welcome to Cooperatics!

Cooperatics is a weblog about cooperation, economics and technology. In other words, our main focus will be on how the current revolution of cooperation, sharing and participative technologies is changing the world and business as we knew it.

Cooperatics is also a consulting and training firm, helping companies to make the most of these new management approaches and technological tools.

On this blog, you will read news and analyses about cooperative management and technologies including blogs, wikis, social networks and P2P platforms. Of course, these are just examples, as technology is always surprising us!

I founded Cooperatics in 2004 and posted my first note on June 10th on the French version of the site, Cooperatique. At this time, working as an IT journalist, I realized a peaceful revolution was taking place in the business world, due to the convergence between a new way of thinking in the workplace and new values, on the one hand, and technologies enabling them, on the other hand.

To discuss these new trends and share my experience, I decided to create the Cooperatique blog and then company. I am pleased today to launch the English version!

In order to learn more about myself, feel free to visit my personal website.

Also, you can check my book, Wikis, zones of collective intelligence, and its associated wiki: leswikis

Talk to you soon!