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It always sucks when a big company gets the credit for a small companies work...

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It sucks when they take your ideas, it sucks when they get credit for someone elses work, but it's part of life.  Here's an example of IBM (but this could be any large company) getting credit for the work of a small company familiar to most in the Lotus Community,  Elguji (they may be small but they come up with big ideas).

Harnessing the Power Of the Crowd

'IBM's' IdeaJam is 24 hours; people propose their ideas for, basically, "What should IBM be doing?" Since IBM is so big that can run the gamut of just about anything. People vote on the winners and IBM selects like 10 ideas and then funds them, sometimes with a lot of money. We've seen a number of these spring up since then.

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Gravatar Image1 - @Carl,

The article is referring to IBM's InnovationJam product. Somehow "IdeaJam" got substituted for "InnovationJam".

InnovationJam is a product that IBM sells that runs on WAS. It also has a much steeper price point then IdeaJam.

Start clock 00:00:00

IdeaJam = File > Application > New

Stop Clock = 15 minutes

Gravatar Image2 - it may suck but I am sure Bruce & co. are grinning at the publicity and resulting google searches for ideajam !

Gravatar Image3 - I'm sure InnovationJam is a cinch to install and configure, like all IBM's WAS-based products.

Gravatar Image4 - @Craig,

Now, now.....

Gravatar Image5 - @4 - What?

Gravatar Image6 - What's an elguji? Emoticon

Gravatar Image7 - @6 It's a type of sushi.

Gravatar Image8 - @6 It's a condom, photographic evidence...

{ condom }

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