Hydrogen Car going Open Source

Whether you have much experience with open source or have explored the potential in engaging a community in co-design and develop or not - it sure is a good idea to pay attention to possible disruptive nature of open source business models in every industry.

The manufacturer of a hydrogen car is going to make their designs available online so the cars can be built and improved locally. This in itself is a unique innovation in a business model for cars but they aren't stopping there. In addition, they are going to lease the cars and the lease includes fuel and repair costs. In order to make refueling easy they are planning a very specific city by city roll out and partnering with a company that will built hydrogen refueling stations in these cities - making it easy for customers to refuel.

You can read the whole article about taking the hydrogen car open source by clicking here.

Wisdom of Crowds - Writing Books

This could be a very significant change in the way books are written - if it works. To date, almost all books have been written by one person or several people collaborating on an effort. A few books have been written as compilations of individual author's essays.

MIT and Wharton are experimenting with having up to a million people write a book on how community process influences and changes business. What's amazing about this so far is that people participating are not only writing the book but they are changing the software being used to write the book.



If you would like to contribute to this book go to We are Smarter than Me.