Now after a couple of weeks of prototyping and discussing with people about this concept I think we need some refocusing here. In the initial plan, as I see it now, three concepts were mixed up, or at least not clearly separated from each other:

1. Generative, collaborative thinking and innovating, dialogue
2. Open sourced business, which refers eg to collaborative innovation, where the results are free for everyone to use
3. Consumer design, which refers eg to consumers being active in product development by submitting and voting for feature requests

The idea of "synusia" refers to the first one of the concepts. The aim was to create tools primarily to facilitate and develop the process of collaborative thinking, while the actual content would have remained secondary.

Actually there were many more concepts such as the rating and reviewing of business ideas etc. Way too many things without clear understanding on how they fit together. My aim now is to take all the extra fat away and find the core of this site (again..) so that this site would have only one primary function. Might be that "development of collaborative thinking process" is a bit too abstract function for making this site a huge hit...

Antti