Sony Ericsson has gone live with a new initiative called ‘SE-dot’. SE dot is aimed at crowdsourcing and developing new ideas. As the company informs us, the idea behind SE-dot is to jump the focus from technology and come down to practical ways in which mobiles can make things easy. On the site you would find ideas being put up, discussed and taken right up to prototype stage. Most of these ideas seems to be problems that developers can offer a solution to via a mobile app, but given the strength of community, Sony Ericsson can truly get some good inputs from power users. Using collaboration between users Dot does better that other attempts that we have seen, like Palm asking you to give them ideas.
One cannot buy innovation but hope SE-dots sparks some good ideas though!
Here is the introduction video:
Thanks for the post and glad you like the idea of Dot! The site is designed to encourage developers to find inspiration as many tell us they lack a direct channel to talk to mobile phone users. Through the site they can now talk directly with the users about what they want to see on their phones, and then post the app as a response to the idea that inspired it. Hopefully we’ll spark some great new ideas!