Posts Tagged ‘crowdsourced’
Sixty Year-Old Food Company Turns to the Crowd for Fresh Logo
Honeyville Food Products, Inc. established as a family business in 1951, is marking its sixtieth year of successful business with a contest to design a new company logo. The competition is not completely open, but the almost 40,000 qualified designers…
November 27th Government Leverages the Power of the Crowd
A top quality group of college students from around the nation will join the US State Department this fall. These students, known as “e-interns,” will be working from coffee shops, the college library, and even their dorm rooms, on tasks…
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…
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…
CrowdFlower Acquires Seattle-based TurkForce
CrowdFlower, a San Francisco-based, global organization that uses crowdsourcing through over 70 countries to drive a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and constantly available workforce, announced today their acquisition of Seattle-based TurkForce, the leading provider of on-demand crowdsourced solutions for businesses with large-scale…
Calling Crowdsourcers to Solve the Galaxy Conundrum
In the continued search for a more universally accepted and accurate definition of a galaxy, astronomers throw open the challenge to anyone and everyone who can provide the best definition of a galaxy through a crowdsourced survey. While Oxford English…
Real Time Crowdsourced Road Tips to Avoid Traffic Jams
A new iphone app seeks to help drivers with helpful information on traffic snarls, offering them crowdsourced suggestions on the best possible routes to take and the ones to avoid. Very often drivers are caught unawares about traffic jams, though…
Will Crowdsourcing Help Win Elections?
With Australia’s New South Wales state elections due to be held on 26th March 2011, a Green Party candidate resorts to crowdsourced reports from constituents to decide campaign strategy. EveryMap, a site that maps the problems and events in an…
GPS software built on crowdsourcing
NavFree, a division of application publisher Navmii, has created the world’s first free onboard iPhone and iPad navigation application using its own community to crowdsource accurate, real-time digital mapping for users. NavFree is a fully integrated, free satellite navigation application…
Forbes’ Editor Michael Noer Says ‘Bring It”—Part 2
Forbes’ Opinion Editor, Michael Noer, has put out the call. The project? “Names You Need to Know in 2011” —Forbes’ first adventure in crowdsourcing the January issue of Forbes magazine. Whose help does he need? Yours. While Noer admits the…
Cookbook crowdsourced from best of NY Times recipies
Amanda Hesser’s cookbook, compiled from the best recipes printed in the New York Times together with narratives from the daily reader, is soon to see the light of the day, thanks to help from readers of the New York Times….
Radiohead concert crowdsourced
In 2007, Radiohead, a European-based music group stepped into the digital download venue by offering their “In Rainbows” album online, giving their fans the ability dictate what they wanted to pay for their album, starting at just £1. They are continuing…
Sour crowd gets involved in a big way
Sour, a Japanese band, crowdsourced their music video for the song Hibo No Neiro (Tone of Everyday). They used highly-choreographed cast members from different countries all around the world, four different directors, months of planning and four weeks of shooting…
Crowdsource your living room
An online furniture store has emerged that uses crowdsourcing to design furniture. Made has taken the traditional process of designing furniture and converted it into an interactive experience that removes showrooms, warehouses, and additional expenses. Made is an online only furniture store….
Doctors Can Now Turn to Crowdsourced Treatment Advice
In a teaching hospital or similar environment, multiple opinions on proposed course of action is easily accessible (think the TV show “House”). But some doctors, in rural areas, for example, or ones who don’t have access to multiple medical peers,…
The Crowds crowd. The Crowdsortium
36 companies have joined up to form the Crowdsortium, a group of experts on the crowdsourcing topic. Not intended to police the crowdsourcing scene, the Crowdsortium simply hopes to make the growing phenomenon a better experience for everyone involved. So,…
Canada Reads: a crowdsourced competition for best book of the year
Every year since 2002, the CBC has put on a “battle of the books,” called Canada Reads, a competition for the best book of the year. Titles must be by Canadian authors, and genres included in the competition are fiction,…
GE Ecomagination Challenge awards $50,000 to Solar Roadways
The first round of GE’s Ecomagination challenge, a call to the crowd to develop the next generation power grid, ended September 30th with almost 75,000 suggestions to pick from. Today, GE announced that Sagle, Idaho-based Solar Roadways, received the highest…
Can small business owners really get free advice from experts?
Focus is a new IT analysis service and social media platform that launched in May of 2010. CEO, Scott Albro, hopes Focus will persuade other IT analysis platforms to change the way they operate. Focus offers free business and tech…
Crowdsourced contest to solve classroom problems
The National Education Association Foundation – and the U.S. Department of Education – have asked grade school teachers and administrators for recommendations to solve classroom problems. This crowdsourced initiative asks participants for their ideas on the worst problems in classrooms,…
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