Posts Tagged ‘crowdsources’
[Crowd Leader: Kyle Hawke] Three Questions to Ask When Starting a Crowdsourcing Project: Reputation, Privacy, and Intellectual Property
When considering the deep plunge into a crowdsourcing project, clients will have questions and the crowdsourcing platform will need to have answers to these three important topics: Reputation of the individuals in the crowd Degree of privacy of the project…
September 30th Facebook’s Crowdsourced Translations Targeted by Pranksters
Facebook’s attempts to crowdsource translations of its site have given free reign to pranksters who have subverted portions of its site to display nonsense messages. Facebook has recently been using crowdsourcing to translate its popular English social networking site to different…
MIT aims to change the climate
Copenhagen climate conference may not have succeeded but that has not daunted the spirit of MIT which has launched a unique contest aiming to generate interest in world climate decisions. Specifically the contest will try to find answers to what…
Finding an affordable source of innovation with Crowdworks
Crowdsourcing just recently started taking hold in the UK thanks in part largely to the recently elected Government using it to gage public opinion about potential spending cuts. However, Jason Burrows, creator of the crowdsourcing platform Crowdworks, has noticed an…
Starbucks crowdsources ideas to understand customer needs
With millions of fans on Facebook and Twitter, Starbucks is ensuring it provides service differentiation by entering the world of crowdsourcing and inviting customers to submit their preferences and wants through mystarbucksidea.com. The site encourages users to suggest what they…
Crowdsourcing for The Truth
Whenever we listen to or read the news it’s hard sometimes to decipher whether or not the information being relayed is credible or simply slanted towards a particular bias. Viewing reports from other news channels, newspapers, or websites may give…
Orange to crowdsource voluntary service ideas for societal good
Orange, a leading mobile service provider, is working on making mobile volunteering possible that will see a joint effort between social entrepreneurs and charity organizations on a never before seen scale. Orange’s ambitious project hopes to exploit mobile technology to…
Stephen Fry crowdsources his Twitter followers for shows’ scripts
Stephen Fry is a famous English actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter, film director and a director of the Norwich City Football Club. Last month his shows at the Sydney Opera House were developed from his fan’s ideas. Through Twitter, Fry invited…
How to Build A Crowdsourcing Application
Crowdsourcing can play the definitive role in the hunt for ideas and information and makes it easy to develop your own applications, at least according to Simon Willison, software architect and web developer for The Guardian. In his presentation entitled Building…
Princeton Professor Develops Ultimate Crowdsourcing Tool
Sociology Professor Matthew Salgnik of the presitgious Princeton University in New Jersey, has developed the ultimate crowdsourcing interactive database, inspired by the site Kitten Wars where feline enthusiats view two pictures of kittens and vote for the one they feel…
Biscuits Crowdsource Fan Requests for Festival
Philadelphia based band Disco Biscuits recently enjoyed tremendous success at Camp Bisco, their ninth annual three day musical extravaganza held on the weekend of July 15th – 17th in Albany, New York. The success of the event was due largely…
Listiki or crowdsourced lists
Listiki is a website to “find, make, and share lists of things you care about”, as its founders say. People can create any type of list they want, such as “top 10 places to go” or “top 5 things you…
World of Credit Reporting to be Rocked Again
Global information giant Experian is once again looking to the world of rock music and the public to launch their new product freecreditscore.com. Capitalizing on their previous campaign where crowdsourcing played a major role, this latest venture started in May with the announcement…
ParkPatrol for iPhone — Putting Crowdsourcing to Good Use
A common problem for vehicle owners is parking. Some people forget where and what time they have parked, which results to annoying parking tickets. ParkPatrol is a free iPhone application that allows you to lessen the occurrence of (if not…
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