I fell on this blog entry: IFTF: A New Literacy for Cooperation.
It reminded me of a model I drafted at a time where we were trying to come up with a creative business association with another enterpreneur & friend.

Exerpt of the blog entry:

"This week I participated in a mind-bending IFTF event shaped by Howard Rheingold on A New Literacy of Cooperation. They are developing a new famework which challenges the assumptions of business strategy that centers around competition. The rise of open source, intellectual property commons, participatory politics, participatory media, and social software all give rise to new cooperative strategies for business."

My own draft of a collaborative model:
The context was the following. Our friend and potential partner developped a well featured e-commerce and basic CMS web based application. He was the only person to sale, promote, program, debug and implement his product. We proposed to extend his base and power and form a sort of business collective around the product.
More on the model we discussed at that time in my wikibrain

It's very exciting to see that these ideas are at last emerging, becoming serious speeches and serious initiatives all over the "web" place. For example the ondemand network , or this Meeting of the mind which I stumbled over recently, and many others.

Thoughts? Example to share?