Benchmark

Intro

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Here is a link to a slideshow the somes all up - if you want to add something - just leave me a comment and ill add it myself or share with you the slideshow for editing.
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dxdx9bp_97d8qcbkfq

Pros and cons

Pros

• Early adoption.
• Branding and publicity.

Cons

• Losing the element of surprise.

Inspirations & Competitors

• Stack overflow
• Google moderator
• Ideation
• Starbucks (http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/, which is actually a SalesForce service)
• Facebook wall / Comments
• Disqus
• http://uservoice.com
• http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ - there are two Drupal installation profiles that try to mimic this http://drupal.org/sandbox/webchick/1270470 & http://drupal.org/project/ideatorrent
• http://www.quora.com/