The New Mad Men Of Advertising Are Everywhere Thanks To Crowdsourcing
How crowdsourcing is deconstructing the traditional business of TV advertising.
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Articles tagged "Crowdsourcing"
Fri, 14 June 2013
Wed, 8 May 2013
Are You Ready To Crowdsource Your Medical Care? CrowdMed Is Ready To Help
Would you trust your medical diagnoses to a crowd of strangers instead of your doctor? Silicon Valley startup CrowdMed thinks you should.
Sat, 27 April 2013
Seesaw App Could Bring "Wisdom Of The Crowd" To Moral Dilemmas
Seesaw, an app that lets you crowdsource your decision making, has a surprising ability to act as a moral compass on your smartphone.
Thu, 25 April 2013
Zach Braff Has Raised $1.65 Million For A Film On Kickstarter
A follow-up to "Garden State."
Sun, 17 March 2013
How I Saved Veronica Mars And Destroyed The Movie Industry As We Know It
Crowdfunding, cloud services and mobile devices are remaking financing and the film industry. That's really good, right?
Fri, 15 March 2013
How Change.org Puts More Power Into The Hands Of People
Change.org has become an effective marketing machine for mostly non-profit organizations
Tue, 5 February 2013
Can The Internet Help This Woman Find The Perfect Gigolo?
A daring editor at one of our sibling sites is going to hire whichever male escort the Internet chooses and then act out nasty fantasies…
Wed, 15 August 2012
How to Crowdsource Without Being a Jerk - Or an Idiot
In the six years since Jeff Howe coined the term ‘crowdsourcing’ in Wired Magazine, the phenomenon has grown into several distinct…
Thu, 12 July 2012
The Key To Crowdsourcing? Smarter Crowds
For nearly a decade, we’ve been hearing about the power of the crowd and the ability of social networks to unleash their power in…
Mon, 21 May 2012
Amazon Streamlines Mechanical Turk With Automatic Categorization App
The idea behind Amazon's Mechanical Turk is pretty simple - break programming work down into bite-sized chunks, and put it in front of a…
Wed, 28 March 2012
Kickstarter Outfunding the NEA Isn't Good
The Internet had mixed reactions to last month's news that Kickstarter was on track to outfund the National Endowment for the Arts. On the…
Fri, 24 February 2012
Kickstarter To Outfund the NEA
If you're thinking about applying for an NEA grant, you might want to consider just doing it yourself on the Web's favorite crowdsourcing…
Thu, 9 February 2012
Kickstarter's New Kings
Late last night Jane McGonigal, the most respected authority in the world of gamification, Tweeted that she'd pitched in to support the…
Sun, 15 January 2012
The Year in Review at Kickstarter
Darling of the crowdfunders, Kickstarter released its stats for the past year, and there is a lot of data to digest. The total number of…
Fri, 13 January 2012
Google Accused of Fraud
Mocality, a Kenya-based crowd-sourced web and mobile business listings company, has accused Google of fraudulently stealing its customers…
Tue, 1 November 2011
The Long March from Crowdsourcing to a Global Meritocracy
OK, this isn't working anymore. Too many people either don't have a job or the ones that do are predominantly dissatisfied. We've been…
Thu, 8 September 2011
Kentucky Boys Kickstart a Super Bowl Ad
What happens when the Recession Apocalypse has got you down? Get a couple of buddies together, call yourselves the Defenders of the…
Mon, 15 August 2011
Win $5k to Redesign a New Middle School Science Curriculum
If you think our middle school science and math education is below par, now is your chance to do something about it. Today the magazine…
Tue, 19 April 2011
Google Map Maker Comes to U.S.
Google Map Maker opened up to U.S. users today, allowing anyone to submit updates, revisions and additional information to the company's…
Fri, 15 April 2011
Help the NISD ID Mystery Machines
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the public to help them identify a bunch of gear in their digital collection…
Wed, 23 March 2011
Help Track the Death of the Night Sky
GLOBE at Night is aggregating public measurements of the night sky (or lack thereof) from March 22 through April 6 in the Northern…
Fri, 18 March 2011
Crowdsourcing U.S. War Papers
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has joined forces with crowdsourcing document outfit Scripto , open source…
Mon, 28 February 2011
Palestine PM Crowdsources Cabinet
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is one of the Mideast leaders who isn't reacting to the social media pointed in his direction with a…
Tue, 22 February 2011
The Wiki Strikes Again: German Official Drops "Dr" After Wiki Investigation
The revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have been dubbed by some to be "Wiki Revolutions" because "just as people can self-organize to…
