Posts Tagged ‘community’
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…
October 22nd 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…
Open Innovation Challenge: $100 million to Fight Breast Cancer
GE is searching for new ideas that will improve breast cancer diagnostics. The challenge has been launched in collaboration with venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock, Mohr Davidow and MPM Capital. The purpose is to generate new…
Lingotek Makes Global Communication a Breeze through Community Participation
Lingotek’s new VP of Marketing and Product Development, Calvin Scharffs, will speak at JiveWorld11 about the critical need for translation in global business. Lingotek will be offering technology demonstrations of its extraordinary translation platform that enables companies to easily access…
Crowdsourcing Continues to Aid in Solving Crimes
The use of crowdsourcing as a tool to help solve crimes continues to grow as law enforcement agencies discover the benefits of tapping the wisdom of the crowd. In essence the crowd itself gets to play hero and detective in…
uTest Puts Managing a Crowdsourcing Community in the Hands of uTesters
uTest launched three new solutions today to help manage the growth of their application testing community – Sandbox, Crash Course, & Test Team Lead. Together, these three initiatives have enabled uTest to qualify new uTesters, provide community-generated training materials, and give…
Stockholm Becomes First City to Use Hybridized Crowdfunding
A new crowdfunding initiative has recently been launched that allows the people of Stockholm, Sweden to have a say in their cultural investment. The initiative is called Crowdculture.se, and its call was announced on 1st April 2011 in co-operation with the Fund…
Company Review: StyleFactory.com
StyleFactory, an online home goods center, has created a unique niche through crowdsourcing home goods, furniture, and related accessories and décor design. The New York based outlet is known as the first online source geared to combine quality design with social commerce needs. …
The First Crowdsourced Television Show?
An unusual new project undertaken by Current TV’s Creation Studio is on the verge of revolutionizing television as we know it. The network, co-founded by Al Gore in 2005, is built on a vision of “democratizing TV”. In it’s beginnings…
Crowdsourcing Organizations Are Helping Small Businesses Grow
Lisa Barone, Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media, has learned how to use crowdsourcing to effectively outsource more detailed processes so she can stay focused on building the core brand of her organization. She has learned how strategic crowdsourcing can…
How the BBC crowdsourced coverage of the floods in Cornwall
Recently, the BBC has been experimenting with Crowdmap, Ushahidi’s cloud based platform, as a way of covering the disruption caused by 24-hour strikes by London Underground staff. I wrote about it here for the Daily Crowdsource. A few weeks ago…
Can someone create a profitable greenhouse gas emissions company
The Toronto Atmospheric Fund is sponsoring an online crowdsourcing challenge for the best business ideas to make a greenhouse gas emission reductions business profitable. The Climate Spark Climate Solutions Challenge is a new venture capital contest through which ClimateSpark, a community-powered…
“The Lab” Changes the UK Fashion Industry through Crowdsourcing Strategies
BrandAlley UK and BrandAlley France have collaborated on a new, international initiative in the European fashion industry called “The Lab.” The Lab will help members crowdsource their opinions on brands and new product categories, as well as vote on new…
[Exclusive] New social network promises to empower crowdsourcing
Evly, The first social network built on the basis of creating crowdsourcing tools, launches Monday to an excited crowd of potential beta testers. Complete details of the site have been kept hidden from the public, however, The Daily Crowdsource was…
The Daily Crowdsource launches new community
In an effort to enhance the crowdsourcing industry, The Daily Crowdsource is launching a new community submitted news section. The community news section is powered by Kapost, an online crowdsourced newsroom, and allows our crowd to add relevant news directly…
We Patch Inspires Urban Agriculture
Garden sharing sites such as We Patch, is one of a dozen revolutionary web-based tools that helps connect unused plots of land with ready and able farmers. Founded in 2008 by writer and agriculture advocate Peter Rothbart, We Patch has…
Battle Over Image Royalties Presents Crowdsourcing Challenge
There have been many examples of how crowdsourcing has benefited a plethora of businesses and organisations to convey a message, gather and share information, as well as sell products and services. However the battle between image supplier iStockphoto and its contributors…
Track ideas and trends with the latest crowdsourcing tool
A new crowdsourcing web application has launched providing people and businesses with further opportunities to gather ideas and recognize patterns through the analysis of large populations. In August, Ideavibes launched it’s crowdsourcing engine enabling users to customize and brand the…
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…
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