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Articles tagged Crowdsourcing

Wednesday, 8th May 2013

Are You Ready To Crowdsource Your Medical Care? CrowdMed Is Ready To Help

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.

Social Brian S Hall comments

Saturday, 27th April 2013

Seesaw App Could Bring "Wisdom Of The Crowd" To Moral Dilemmas

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.

Mobile Nick Statt comments

Thursday, 25th April 2013

Zach Braff Has Raised $1.65 Million For A Film On Kickstarter

Zach Braff Has Raised $1.65 Million For A Film On Kickstarter

A follow-up to "Garden State."

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Sunday, 17th March 2013

How I Saved Veronica Mars And Destroyed The Movie Industry As We Know It

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?

Cloud Brian S Hall comments

Friday, 15th March 2013

How Change.org Puts More Power Into The Hands Of People

How Change.org Puts More Power Into The Hands Of People

Change.org has become an effective marketing machine for mostly non-profit organizations

Social Michael Tchong comments

Tuesday, 5th February 2013

Can The Internet Help This Woman Find The Perfect Gigolo?

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. Why not?

Dan Lyons comments

Wednesday, 15th August 2012

How to Crowdsource Without Being a Jerk - Or an Idiot

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, maturing industries that give businesses and workers almost limitless flexibility. But crowdsourcing also significantly changes the relationships betweeen employers and workers - and not necessarily for the…

Enterprise Cormac Foster comments

Thursday, 12th 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 everything from building an encyclopedia to helping people predict the ebbs and flows of equities markets. Crowds are a great resource and a trove of valuable information - when they work. When they don’t, it…

Dave Copeland comments

Monday, 21st 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 large workforce that can do the work quickly and cheaply. Part of the challenge of that is making it easy for requesters to create the bites that workers are chewing on. The new categorization app from Amazon…

Joe Brockmeier comments

Wednesday, 28th 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 one hand, this was great news for artists and creative people who wanted to fund a seemingly obscure or perhaps controversial art project that their friends would probably get behind. Yet others weren't so…

Play Alicia Eler comments

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