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Tag Archives: crowdsourcing
Facebook Pushes AMBER Alerts To Your News Feed
They will be location based for all users.
The New Mad Men Of Advertising Are… Everywhere
How crowdsourcing is deconstructing the traditional business of TV advertising.
CrowdMed Wants To Crowdsource Your Medical Care To Strangers
Would you trust your medical diagnoses to a crowd of strangers instead of your doctor? Silicon Valley startup CrowdMed thinks you should.
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.
Zach Braff Has Raised $1.65 Million For A Film On Kickstarter
A follow-up to “Garden State.”
How I Saved Veronica Mars And Destroyed The Movie Industry
Crowdfunding, cloud services and mobile devices are remaking financing and the film industry. That’s really good, right?
How Change.org Puts More Power Into The Hands Of People
Change.org has become an effective marketing machine for mostly non-profit organizations
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?
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…
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…
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…
Why Kickstarter Outfunding the NEA Isn’t a Good Thing
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…
Kickstarter To Outfund National Endowment for the Arts
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 tool, Kickstarter.
Co-Founder Yancey Strickler said today in an interview with Talking Points Memo that Kickstarter might actually crowdsource fund $150 million in 2012, which is $4 million more than the…
Kickstarter To Outfund National Endowment for the Arts
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 tool, Kickstarter.
Co-Founder Yancey Strickler said today in an interview with Talking Points Memo that Kickstarter might actually crowdsource fund $150 million in 2012, which is $4 million more than the…
$1m in 1 Day: Meet Double Fine, the New Kings of Kickstarter
Late last night Jane McGonigal, the most respected authority in the world of gamification, Tweeted that she’d pitched in to support the creation of a new point and click adventure game from respected game development shop Double Fine. That was the first trickle I saw of what quickly became a flood of support for the […]
$1m in 1 Day: Meet Double Fine, the New Kings of Kickstarter
Late last night Jane McGonigal, the most respected authority in the world of gamification, Tweeted that she’d pitched in to support the creation of a new point and click adventure game from respected game development shop Double Fine. That was the first trickle I saw of what quickly became a flood of support for the Double Fine Adventure…
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 projects is more than double from last year, the success rates for funding them is up slightly, and the total dollars pledged is close to a $100 million, which is more than triple what was pledged last year…
Google Accused of Fraud Against African Competitor [Updated: Google Statement]
Mocality, a Kenya-based crowd-sourced web and mobile business listings company, has accused Google of fraudulently stealing its customers. In a blog post today, Mocality’s CEO Stefan Magdalinski maintained that Google has targeted its database, the core of its company, and lied to its users in an attempt to get them to join up with Google…
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 talking about networked organisations and distributed work for decades, but productivity gains have been dim the past ten years. Everything worked just well enough to not think about structural changes. We tried…