http://www.madeforone.com/Articles Mass customization and personalization news Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:42:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A company called MyTego.com, based in Winnipeg, Canada provides an interesting example of a company using the mass customization business model. [caption id="attachment_289" align="alignnone" width="160" caption="A Nintendo DSi with a MyTego.com skin"][/caption] The company provides custom-made vinyl 'skins' (self-adhesive covers) for personal electronic devices.  Customers can create a Tego skin using images ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/mass-customization/mass-customization-by-mytegocom/ Continuing on from my previous post on the Mcor Matrix 3D printer that uses paper as its raw material, I hope to provide here a review of other recent developments relating to 3D printing hardware.  Not all of these are immediately relevant to the idea of consumers printing objects in ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/technology/developments-in-3d-printing-hardware/ Over the last few months, I've noticed that 3D printing technology, and the businesses that are based on it, are receiving a much higher level of attention in the mainstream business and technology media.  Coupled with this is a noticeable expansion in the number of companies that are engaged in ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/technology/mcor-matrix-paper-goes-3d/ Online custom clothing company Spreadshirt, recently announced an investment of €10 million by Kennet Partners, a leading private equity firm, and existing investor Accel Partners. Spreadshirt allows customers to personalized goods to purchase for themselves, with a minimum order of one.   In addition, Spreadshirt extends this capability to partners, large and ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/mass-customization/spreadshirt-closes-e10m-in-financing/ 1.  If you're a parent of a young baby or toddler, this press release might be of interest to you:  A company called MyPacifier will sell you a child's pacifier with the name of the child on it - probably most useful if your child is in a creche or ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/mass-customization/more-links-for-25-february/ 1.  Jeff Howe, author of the Crowdsourcing book, has written an interesting and comprehensive blog post about the possible future online business models that might be adopted by the print media. 2.  RPI, a provider of automated, mass-customized manufacturing and fulfillment for ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/mass-customization/links-for-25-february/ The music industry has faced considerable strategic challenges in recent years, not least the trend towards reduced revenues caused by file sharing, but also the shift in market power from labels towards online aggregators such as Apple iTunes. Another side-effect of the world wide web on the music industry has ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/business/contrasting-uses-of-open-strategies-in-the-music-industry-emi-and-minimum-noise/ An article in LimaOhio.com includes information on American Trim, a company from Lima, Ohio in the U.S. that is held up by the local Mayor as an example of a enterprise that has successfully pursued a mass customization strategy. American Trim manufactures parts for appliances and heavy trucks. ___________________________________________ In ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/mass-customization/customization-links-for-19-january/ Since the crowdsourcing phenomenon was first documented during 2006, in a Wired magazine article by Jeff Howe, followed by his book of that name in 2007, the business and technology world has continued to adopt the concept, with varying models and methods. In some cases, the crowdsourcing model used involved a ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/crowdsourcing/categories-of-crowdsourcing-and-more-on-whether-contributors-should-be-paid/ Following on from the previous post on personalized medicine, a less serious application of genetics: DNA art, as reported in the Pittsburg Live website. DNA 11, an Ottawa, Canada-based company, takes people's DNA, obtained by a simple cotton swab wiped inside a cheek, and turns the genetic information ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/personalization/customization-links-for-17-january/ I have found some interesting articles on personalized medicine around the web in recent weeks which, when taken collectively, provide a useful examination of current developments in this area. An article in the Vancouver Sun, 'One-size-fits-all no more' provides an interesting overview on the topic of personalized medicine, explaining the topic ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/technology/state-of-personalized-medicine-in-2009/ The Inventorspot website has a news item on the new customized travel guides being produced by Dorling Kindersley (DK) Travel. [caption id="attachment_241" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The DK travel customized travel guide website"][/caption] They are similar in concept to Offbeat Guides, which were covered on this site recently. The Inventorspot article considers the DK Travel ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/technology/dorling-kindersley-travel-launch-customized-travel-guides/ Cincom, which provides software solutions for configuration of complex products (often called product configurators), has started two separate blogs to engage with its customer base. The first of these blogs is called Complex Selling Made Effective, with articles written by contributors from Cincom, principally Louis Columbus and Dale Wolf of Cincom ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/technology/cincom-enters-blogging-world-to-engage-with-customers/ Could 2009 be the year that crowdsourcing takes root in the area of car design? My last 2008 post here described how Caterham, a specialist British sports car maker, is crowdsourcing the design of its next car. In late December, an article in the Boston-based XConomy website described how Local ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/business/local-motors-joins-trend-for-crowdsourcing-car-design/ Caterham, the specialist British sports car manufacturer, has launched a crowdsourcing initiative for the design of its next model, in association with PerformancePR, an automotive public relations company.  The project, named Splitwheel, which is described as "a revolutionary online project to design and build a new performance car based on ... http://www.madeforone.com/Articles/index.php/business/caterham-to-crowdsource-design-of-its-next-car/