Hi Solomon-

Thank you so much for finding this conversation thread and joining in! I’m really excited to hear of your rising Phoenix story…if I can call it that!

There’s a group in Brazil that’s created a project you might find interesting that has created an online space for collaborative media design and sharing, especially for youth. If you’d like to learn more, let me know and I’m happy to make an email intro to them. Their website is: http://eletrocooperativa.org

I’d love to check out Ideapals and share ideas/feedback. I can’t make the event on the 28th, but what is the best way for me or other readers who are interested to join in the discussions/collaborations/development with you?

Thanks again

I too was a member of ideablob and very active in the in-person “bloblive” events. I met my business partner and CTO of my company, MoviePals Open Cinema, at a bloblive meetup. I was inspired by the way people shared ideas and I’ve always been a huge supporter of collaboration, in fact my original idea was a collaborative film studio allowing people from all over the world to connect and create movies together, owned by the artists and distributed online for free with advertising.

I was not happy when Blobliveand Ideablob went out of business and I began to think about collaboration. Specifically how people come together to work on ideas and share their passions. Thousands of hours of development and 400 cups of coffee later: IdeaPals.org beta was launched.

I liked how people got excited about sharing and the competition as a bonus. I don’t have a large amount of capital, but we can build collaborative websites that can scale to millions of users and since we’re creating a year long web series, we also have some serious advertising space available for the most active members of our community.

I would love to get your feedback or have you take part on the site or on one of our inperson events. This is only the beginning. WE really believe in this. You can get an idea of what we’re doing on the front page of http://IdeaPals.org and we’re throwing our first in person open mic in LA on the 28th of this month. That info is available here: http://www.meetup.com/ideapals-la-open-mic/ . You can also see the idea I started with, MoviePals Open Cinema, taking place in my ideapals group at http://ideapals.org/premium/moviepals

Hi Nate-

Thanks for joining in the conversation here! I’m looking forward to hearing more about your ideas about collaboration and hope that as the topic is one of my focuses for the blog in 2010 I can start a few good conversations and brain waves for you to contribute to!

Again, really appreciate you joining in and hope to hear more from you going forward 🙂

I stumbled onto this discussion after passing a parked car on the street tonight with a ideablob.com t-shirt used as a seat cover for the drivers seat!

Personally, I would like to see all of society shift from a model of secrecy and competition to one of collaboration and co-operation. Basically, I want to be able to dream, and see my (and obviously many others as well) ideas come to life.

I’ve been playing with some models in my mind, but I would love to join a discussion with anyone and everyone who might have similar dreams! I’d especially like to connect with some artists, architects, and passionate dreamers who have the energy to get things done!

Cheers for now . . . I hope to find you all engaged in your passions, and working side by side with me to create a better future!

-Nate