Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Joint Venture Offers Crowdsourcing Opportunities for Manufacturing Businesses
On October 21 Chaordix, one of the leaders in crowd intelligence solutions, and Genius Crowds, a social ideation community that uses crowdsourcing to encourage the development of new products, declared a new joint venture to mutually provide manufacturing enterprises with…
October 28th Ortsbo Pushes the Envelope with Instant Translation
Ortsbo is an instant translation tool for desktop computers and IM, and it’s now available for the iPhone. You can use it with platforms such as MSN and Facebook for real time translation as you speak or type. CEO David…
DesignInArk Crowdsources 2020 Olympic Logo Design
DesignInArk.com is offering artists and designers a chance to play a major part in the 2020 Olympics: they have just announced a design contest to define a logo concept for the Games. The contest, which will run until midnight October…
Social Network Launches for Open Innovation Industry Professionals
Co-creation professionals now have their own section in cyberspace to talk about their industry and build new business opportunities together. On October 6, the Co-Creation Forum launched their own social network to offer executives more opportunities to engage in dialogue…
Crowdsourcing Design Site Launches in Canada
99designs, the largest platform in the world for crowdsourcing the services of graphic designers, launched in Canada on Tuesday. The goal of opening the Canadian branch is to offer small companies an almost unlimited supply of professionally designed logos, web…
MercMob: Fresh Faces and Fresh Ideas
MercMob is a relatively new entrant to the crowdsourcing field and brings with it a unique spin on collaborative project management. The company is based out of Cambridge, MA, and was co-founded by Greg Millington and Adam Peruta. The company went public…
Crowdsourcing An Opera Production
The Opera By You project is a venture which has been using crowdsourcing to develop a fully fledged live opera production. The project, launched last year, has been drawing ideas, melodies, lyrics, and even dialogue from a crowd of online…
PopSci & Innocentive Plan New Open Innovation Pavilion
One of the largest science and technology publications, PopSci, and a leader in Crowdsource Driven Innovation, InnoCentive, have announced their recent partnership to develop a new online challenge platform. The platform, or pavilion, uses crowdsourcing as a means to facilitate…
[Crowd Leader] Kyle Hawke: The Power of Prediction Markets
Us humans are notoriously terrible at estimating. We are over-confident sometimes, but pad our estimates for uncertainty in others. We rarely use ranges in our estimates, rather we prefer to use single point estimates which mathematically have no chance of…
Exclusive Daily Crowdsource Offer – UK Open Innovation Event
Innovation agencies 100%Open and Wecreate have partnered to organise a two day event called The Open Innovation Accelerator to be held on March 3rd 2011 in Islington, UK. The programme, geared to enhancing collaborative and open innovation strategies, is designed to…
Wonky Films Crowdfund Animated Jokes
Ever wondered about the answer to the timeless question “Why did the chicken cross the road”? Bristol based animators WONKY Films hope to provide the answer with the first film of their latest crowdfunded animation project designed to combine animation…
[Giveaway] Win free premium collaboration tools from TeamSnap
TeamSnap would like to say ‘Thank You’ to all our readers by offering our first giveaway. TeamSnap has graciously donated free use of their premium service, which is an online tool that makes it easy to manage your crowd. TeamSnap…
Crowdsourcing makes a splash on the stock market
A new startup, EquitySplash, has recently announced that it is going to use crowdsourcing to attract stock investors. In a move that makes traditional Wall Street investors shudder, the platform EquitySplash is developing will enable people to deposit money into…
P&G Drives New Product Innovation to the Next Level with Increased Crowdsourcing Program
Procter & Gamble recently crowdsourced several well known brands through P&G’s program “Connect + Develop”. Launched in 2001, as a program in which at least half of the innovation comes from crowdsourcing external sources, Connect + Develop, is tracking to…
Crowdflower Funding to Help Business With Crowdsourcing
Rewarding companies that think smart makes sense, something that Dave Mclure, the brains behind 500 Startups appreciates all too well with his latest venture. McLure’s latest proposal looks to fund startup companies who incorporate other companies’ time and cost saving…
[Exclusive] Whinot co-founder explains crowdsourced consulting
The Daily Crowdsource spoke with Kyle Hawke, co-founder of crowdsourced consulting firm, Whinot, on the issues of crowdsourcing, collaboration, and virtual consulting. Hawke presented insightful thoughts into the world of virtual business consulting and we have them here for your…
Federal agencies seek out solutions by crowdsourcing
The Federal government is undertaking a large scale crowdsourcing implementation in the form of a website called challenge.gov. The site went live September 7th and is described as a place where the public and government can solve problems together. Challenge.gov…
MIT’s team won $40,000 in balloon-finding competition by using crowdsourcing method
Last year, Alex Pentland and his crew at MIT’s Human Dynamics Lab, along with their crowd won $40,000 in a competition organized by The Pentagon’s mad-scientist research wing, DARPA. The main goal of the competition was finding locations of 10…
Trada raises $5.75 million for its crowdsourced SEM platform
Trada, a crowdsourced SEM (search engine marketing) platform led by Google Ventures and early investor Foundry Group, recently raised $5.75 million. With this platform, freelance search marketers and advertisers find one another to work on advertising campaigns. Trada announced few weeks…
Crowdsourcing in the architecture world
Using Wikipedia or other architecture sites to collect enough information about a building of interest, is quite often time consuming. It really takes time and the accuracy of the facts is unknown. With the emergence of OpenBuildings, now architecture geeks can…
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