Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
India Turns to Crowdsourcing for Tackling Traffic Violations
The use of crowdsourcing and social networking sites to police street traffic is slowly gaining popularity in India, the latest of a few countries to undertake this practice. The traffic police of the nation’s cities, including Pune, Chennanai, and Delhi…
January 15th Napkin Labs turns Facebook ‘Likes’ into Customer Insight with New Brainstorm App
Napkin Labs has launched a new Facebook app to help brands get the most out of their fans by enabling them to crowdsource right within their Facebook page. The Brainstorm app gives companies a free and easy way to get…
Trada Launches the World’s First Crowdsourced Facebook Advertising Marketplace
Last week at ad:tech New York, the world’s leading digital marketing conference, Trada announced the first crowdsourced marketplace for Facebook ads. Trada has launched the new service to help advertisers target their audiences and run their campaigns on the social…
‘Great Little Place’ Proves To Be Great Little Crowdfunded Platform
It was not too long ago that a little conduit called ‘Great Little Place’ was introduced to Facebook. Now, through the power of crowdsourcing, Great Little Place has become a popular location-focused social networking tool. Co-founder Rich Brown describes the…
Facebook Investment Fund Reaches $300,000
MicroVentures has just announced that it has raised $300,000 for a fund to buy Facebook private shares on a secondary market. According to the company, ten minutes after becoming available, the investment already had raised $40,000. After two weeks the…
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…
[Crowd Leader: Wolfgang Kitza] Clicktivism: Are the Clicks Adding Up?
In this three part series we explore the beginnings, debate surrounding, and power of clicktivism. The uses and abuses of clicktivism have been controversial, but the overall power and increased use of online crowdsourcing of a cause continues to grow….
Crowdsourced Campaign Drives Creativity as well as Negativity Among Fans
Bombay Sapphire, a brand of gin distributed by Bacardi and launched in 1987, decided to use Facebook fans to crowdsource its recent Imagination Campaign. Their objective was to achieve a creative advantage in their marketing by using their fans’ artwork…
Intel Crowdsources Latest Ad Campaign
Technology and processor giants Intel, having recently launched a new family of processors designed to fit into ultra-thin laptops needed a different marketing and ad campaign for their product. In this search for a fresh approach, the company turned to…
Crowdsourcing The Real Life Farmville with My Farm
One of the world’s most popular online games, Farmville by Zynga Games, allows players to grows crops, build farm houses, tend cattle and help neighbouring farms do the same. Whether it is through Facebook or through a smartphone app players…
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…
Popstar and Charity Crowdsource Help for NYC Homeless
Pop sensation Lady Gaga has not only established herself as a successful music artist but has also revealed her caring nature. The No.1 chart topping singer’s acts of philanthropy have included donating proceeds from her New York concert to help…
Crowdsourcing Helps Fight Misinformation and Spam on Twitter
Canada’s first “social media election” has been a spring board for anonymous people spreading smear campaigns, misinformation, and instances of “astroturfing” (using sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums). Academics at the University of Indiana, having already…
Team Depot Crowdsourcing Worthy Projects Through Facebook
The Home Depot® Foundation, whose goal is to assist non-profit organisations, has launched a crowdsourcing philanthropic venture. The program “Aprons in Action” will allow the public to help decide, through its Facebook page how the Foundation’s grant funds and volunteers should…
Coca-Cola and Maroon 5 Crowdsource New Song
Coca-Cola, one of the world’s most successful producers of beverage products, recently revealed its partnership with Grammy Award winning band Maroon 5 for a crowdsourcing project. The giant bottling company will help the band market a new song through the…
Crowdfunding for Firefly’s Return
Fans of the cult sci-fi show Firefly are not adverse to using crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in various attempts to bring their favourite show back to the screen in one form or another. The crowsourcing efforts of fans Steve Fisher and…
Crowdfunding Brings Robocop to Detroit
What started out as a bit of fun on Twitter has turned into reality. Now it seems thanks to the effort of an artist from Detroit, Michigan harnessing the power of the crowd to raise the money needed, a statue…
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…
[Crowd Leader] Ville Miettinen: The Dictator’s Guide to Social Networking
They’ve certainly had a busy start to 2011 in the Arab world. In Tunisia, the ruling regime has already been toppled, while the Egyptian Government teeters on the brink of collapse. As with the Iranian election crisis in 2009, many…
Crowdsourcing Resurrects TV Shopping
With the ongoing computer revolution, many analysts and investors considered television shopping businesses as a thing of the past. This is because nowadays, almost every product a consumer can buy on television are also available at e-commerce websites like Amazon.com, Blue…
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