Techno-inspired clothing...

Now clothing companies are being inspired by social networks...this ingenius dutch company produce clothing with a unique logo for each user...the logos serves as a launch pad for people to connect with you having snapped your unique logo with their mobile phone...

This is exactly the type of company who will foster naturally growing communities as their innovation pays off through word of mouth and the clincher - and absolute driver to the online world in their USP.

I love this one.

Wiki wiki wow wiki wow wow

Check this out Wikicrimes was started by Professor Vasco Furtado from the University of Fortaleza in northern Brazil...great example of how our collective knowledge is becoming so much more explicit, referenced and thus more real...

Thanks to wikis we can re-clame knowledge from records in institutions and access it at will

Although my search for a wiki directory yielded poor results wiki directory...

I did find a relatively new wiki platform, released earlier this year...Wetpaint. The interesting thing about this wiki format is that is comprises a collection of individual wiki portals

The sites as yet pretty undeveloped and populated by a lot of commercial crap. Also I must admit not as easy to navigate as the ubiquitous Wikipedia but I'm interested to see how it develops...