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A great posting from the getsatisfaction team on how individual voice join to innovate and create demand for a new products, http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2008/05/09/birth-of-a-bag/

It’s not really just the product they are innovating, the individuals are shaping the function and purpose of the business manufacturing the product.

I have made a start on the wiki . The wiki hosts the code, html, javascript, php, mysql is the environment and I have uploaded the public webpage code. In particular the search engine code needs a lot of improvement.

I will get the files that make up the rest of the site uploaded by the end of the week.  This is my first open source project where I have taken a lead, so feedback on how best to host the code is sought.

I have knocked up this site, local good food to put together some of the new coding skills I have acquired.  The site allows you to find local food in Grampain Region, in Scotland.

Improvements, the drop down list to select market, could do with one the allows to search all of Grampain.

The sql query is pretty primitive and will need improved.

All in all with a few more products added, this service is taking shape.

The core ideas of lifestyle linking are presented in this demo.

Type in a word or multiple words and click on Start lifestyle linking button.  There is only six or seven products to link to but you get the feel if you click on the price, to get to website of product or click on the product to start personalizing (This only works for the energy bar, to see that type in the word swimming ).

Objective:  lifestyle linking whisky app.

website.  text, rss, lifestream input, bring back list of whisky based upon an indivdual lifestyle, could be to e.g. relax, or match taste choices, prestiege etc.

create plug in widget for wordpress, other blog platforms.

turn into facebook/opensocia app.

I’ll set up an online location for the code and then this open source project should be ready for a start.

Here are the list of open source project I am learning from and have been part of :

Socialtext OPEN    Been a user of this for a couple of years now.

Wordpress   Started wordpress.com and now have own local and online install i.e. this blog.

Drupal:  Got this install but still struggling to customise

Clamwin:   I use for  anti virus

And Elgg,  an open source social network,  people aggregator are opensource too but I have not looked at their code.

So, I need a place on sourceforge.net  and website/wiki to host code, build, manage project etc.

Here are a list of my favorite personalization websites:

Food:
CrushPadWine Online community create wine, soil, plant to bottling and selling.

mymuesli order your breakfast cereal with the ingredients you select.

The label of your own whisky, BrandedWhisky.

Clothing:
T shirts, lots to choose from Zazzle.com to Threadless.com   others.

Furniture:
Tables etc.  with Ponoko.com

These service give the individual the ability to create personalized products.  What lifestyle linking would provide the individuals in these services with is the information to make decision that maximise the life outcomes.  For example: which wine would I like the best or make me relax best?  Which muesli is best before going swimming?  Which whisky label makes my gift most treasured?  What T-shirt, how will the fabric effect my skin?   What height of table will best match my mobilty?

Only a community will have the information to these questions.  As we individually don’t have enough time to live through all the potential options.

The ideas have been expressed in a series of blog posts.   Out there for review, feedback, additions, further ideas etc.

The development milestones to be addressed are listed on the road map.  Out of all of these the ones I am investigating/learning around are:

registration and signin, password recovery etc.  Propose to use the wordpress platform,  this is too advanced for me to fully understand right now but that is the goal.

Start lifestyle linking: either key in words or upload url, rss or lifestream. Got a basic service operational but need to improve mysql query to the lifestyle linking query, out put results in a table view, with interaction like ebay columns.

Most of the manufacturing is done by businesses in todays economy. The individuals using lifestyle linking need to interact with them. Likewise, the business need to manage their product creation with the lifestyle linkings community. Business can do so from the business Dashboard.

This interface summaries the ideas coming in from the community, the samples the community are testing out and the Personalized production processes in preparation or in production or ready for delivery.

The dashboard allow for navigation to:

Setup a manufacturing process they can undertake, from ingredients to processing to packaging etc.

Blog about thier business in the context of personalized product creation.

Interact with the community within and out with lifestyle linking.

Summary of all personalized products made.

This UI, contains a list of the account holders personalized products in the context of swimming.

The personalization product could be for:

energybar:  swimmer may require different type of energy depending on before, after(recovery) competition day, time of year, type of training, general health status.

energy drink:  similar to above.

shampoo:  dna gives hair dryness etc.  lots of swimming give chemical pollution, cholrine to break down.  Need one that does both with out compromising on performance of product or damage hair.

breakfast cereal:  before training, over all sustained energy release.

swimming googles:  weathe I am training indoor or out, eye sight quality, competion seamline or training comfort, stay on when diving in etc.

Organic juices:  which ones to drink while swimming or after to soak up freeradicals?

Wash powder: specialized for swimming trunks etc. and to help remove chlorine from towls or to help towel remove chlorine while drying etc.