Posts Tagged ‘Crowdsource’
A New Way to Name Your Baby
At a time when crowdsourcing is rapidly growing in popularity, there seems to be no limit to what reasons people will use crowdsourcing for. Jon Peters and Brittany Gardner of Vancouver, Canada have hired PickyDomains.com to crowdsource a name for…
December 4th Artspire Allows Artists to Crowdfund Tax Deductible Contributions
Artspire, created by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is a newly launched crowdfunding platform that acts as an extension of NYFA’s fiscal sponsorship program. Artspire is different from other crowdfunding platforms because it allows artists to accept…
CrowdEngineering Announces Crowd4self Beta Release and Integration with Amazon Mechanical Turk.
On November 2nd, 2011, CrowdEngineering announced at CrowdConf in San Francisco that it will launch a self-service platform that will revolutionize the crowdsourcing industry. Crowd4Self is now integrated with Amazon Mechanical Turk which is Amazon’s crowdsourcing forum for HIT’s (Human…
DNA 11 Launches Design Platform to Tap into Innovative and Creative minds.
DNA 11, is a company that creates biometric art in the form of rugs and wallpaper. This highly personalized art form is made from customers personal DNA making every design an original. On October 12th, the company launched DNA11 labs…
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…
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…
The Guardian to Experiment with Crowdsourcing News
The Guardian, a national British newspaper, will be one of the first national papers to implement a major editorial change. On Monday morning the newspaper plans to crowdsource aspects of its editorial policy, which could be the starting point of change…
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…
Amnesty International Crowdsources to Gather Intelligence on Syrian Human Rights Violations
The Standby Task Force and Amnesty International USA’s human rights program is recruiting volunteers to help geographically pinpoint human rights violations taking place in the Syrian rebellion. The program began in early September and asks the participants to look through…
The Crowsource Concept Lead Scientists to Two New Exoplanets
When the Planet Hunters website launched in 2010, it asked 400,000 citizen scientists to help classify an overwhelming amount of data collected through a project called the Kepler Mission. The research involved looking at the light patterns of 150,000 stars for…
Diabetics Look to Crowdsourcing For Better Medication
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is using crowdsourcing to look beyond the traditional resources of the health care industry and has announced a $100,000 challenge to search for better diabetes medicine. The main objective is to find glucose-responsive insulin that reacts…
uTest Launches Campaign to Educate Tech Execs about In-the-Wild Testing
uTest brings new concept to the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco (September 12, 2011) by launching www.IntheWildTesting.com. The purpose is to educate participants about the benefits of testing apps in an imperfect environment. The new crowdsource-based software takes quality…
CrowdSource Announces New VP of Sales
CrowdSource, LLC has just announced the hiring of a new Vice President of Sales, Ken Stoddart. Stoddart brings to CrowdSource a wide range of experiences gained while working with companies such as Secure IT, GeoTrust, VeriSign, and Symantec. His expertise…
[Exclusive] CrowdSource.com Introduces Worker Profiles
CrowdSource, LLC has launched a new service for their Scalable Workforce platform called Worker Profiles. Worker Profiles will allow users of Scalable Workforce to measure their working performance against other members, providing more nuanced feedback and a more competitive environment….
[Exclusive] Scalable Workforce Launches Microtasking Site, CrowdSource.com
Early in the second quarter of 2011, Scalable Workforce, LLC acquired the CrowdSource brand with the hopes that it would help them continue to unlock the enormous potential of crowdsourcing solutions in business practices. Today they announced the official launch of…
Unique Crowdsourcing Model Makes RFPs More Accessible
The Requests for Proposal Database (RFPdb), created by web design and custom web-based software development firm Confluent Forms, recently hit the 100,000 subscriber milestone. With a growth rate of 2,000 new users a month and a unique crowdsourcing model the…
Hollywood Directors Crowdsource Inspiration
Hollywood directors Tim Burton (Corpse Bride), Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind), Ridley Scott (Gladiator), and Judd Apatow (Bridesmaids) have been turning to Twitter and YouTube to crowdsource inspiration for their projects. Judd Apatow used jokes sent by his Twitter followers…
Crowdfunding Enables Promotion of Social Causes
A new crowdfunding platform has been launched to enable funds to be raised to promote social causes. Commercial advertising is a highly successful industry raking in revenues of over 400 billion US dollars every year. Big businesses do not hesitate to…
Clickworker Secures 4.25 Million € (approx. $5.91 Million USD) Financing for U.S. Expansion
German based company Clickworker, recently announced that it closed $5.91mm USD in Series B funding. This new round, led by European investors including Klaus Wecken (private investor), High-Tech Grunderfonds (HTGF), Corporate Finance Partners (CFP), and KfW Bankengruppe, will further accelerate…
Crowdsourced Pothole Database to Track Road Repair
A new project makes use of crowdsourced reports to alert government and local street departments about the potholes in their vicinity. All motorists are aware of the bane of potholes that occur during each spring thaw. While a motorist’s reflex…
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