Get Ideas from Cool Software, laterally

Intel goes web 2.0 style web with releasing a new Digg clone site called CoolSW. The CoolSW site is an online community of people passionate about software. Members can post information about an interesting new software company and, more important, the community votes on whether they think a software company is, well, “cool.” Companies that receive a lot of votes get elevated to the site’s front page where the casual visitor can see what community members consider the most interesting software.

Aside from the pure entertainment, get the latest information about new up-and-coming applications or companies. Contributors are putting “Collective Intelligence” to work and software innovation creates growth opportunities for everyone. You are welcome to visit, enjoy the postings and conversation, but if you would like to be part of community to post, vote or comment, then you’ll need to take the free and easy membership plunge.

This is a very interesting approach that using the same idea (digg) to tackle a different space (i.g. techcrunch, etc.) Of cause, the benefits go to us, the people who care about technologies. I always think the bottleneck place like techcrunch should be broken sooner or later, one way or another.