Brainstorming from Foo Camp

Posted by: Heather Green on September 23

Tim O’Reilly pulled together this interesting map of a brainstorming session from Foo Camp. (Via Susan Mernit). It’s hard to read here, but when you click through, you’ll see some of the memes of Web 2.0: “Trust your users” or “Software that gets better the more people use it.”

And I was thinking about how natural this is for many people swimming in this soup of ideas, but how one notion in particular might help mainstream companies—the meme about “The perpetual beta.” We’re so used to not releasing a product, a service, an idea, until it’s fully baked. But with the Web 2.0, you have permission to play around with things, to work on them as people are watching, with the help of people.

Of course, I think that means that we the people have to cut mainstream companies some slack as well or else be willing, after a quick round of first hand criticisms to be willing to go back and reassess what these traditional companies are doing—whether it’s CBS and it’s Public Eye blog or CurrentTV.

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