Crowdsourcing is one of today's hot topics, and Intel and Asus have launched a project to use it in the design of innovative PCs, via a Web site at WePC.com. The headline view is: You dream it. Asus builds it. Intel inside it.
The site has sections for notebooks, netbooks and gaming PCs. As with Dell's IdeaStorm, users can vote on other people's ideas. There's also a Community section for blog posts.
I've had a quick browse, and it seems to me that most of the suggestions are either obvious and therefore dull, or too futuristic to be practical or affordable. There may be some good stuff in there, but we're still waiting for it to be voted to the top of the sorted list.
Incidentally, if you've got today's printed paper, there's an article on crowdsourcing on the front of our Enterprise small business supplement. Of course, it's also online. See The customer knows best.
