Posts Tagged with ‘crowdsourcing’

Today we are watching an extraordinary move from Google. The internet giant seems to be exhausted in its pursuit for unlicensed use of unused airwaves (”white spaces”) between broadcast TV channels for internet access and decided to call for support from general internet users. Instead of continuing to try to reach the solution that it wants on its own Google has decided to invite all the internet users it can access to sign a petition that this unused spectrum should [...]

The blogosphere is abuzz around the latest initiative named concept series by Mozilla to find out what internet users actually want the internet future to be like. Sure, for Mozilla as the creator of Firefox the most important thing is how what we expect of our browsers - they really seem to want to make our browsing experience a perfect one (and I do hope they will succeed since even on their own every new version of Firefox [...]

Sometimes Google simply puzzles me. It is a multi-billion dollar company, right? It has all the resources to venture into absolutely any new field - by either investing in internal development or buying all the companies it thinks could complement its other products or even launching a venture fund of their own if they so choose.
And now I look at the latest post on the Official Google Blog and one thing comes to my mind: Google actually takes [...]

Over the past 48 hours I conducted a poll of Twitter users. Unscientific? Absolutely. Generic? Of course. And yet I was surprised at the results. What did I ask on Thursday? “Which issue is bigger to you? Gender gap/social media, race/social media, poverty gap/social media or generation gap/social media.”
I must admit I picked a hard time to conduct a Twitter Poll, what with Twitter going down, but I still got a healthy number of responses. When I started the poll, [...]

In the time since Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine popularized the term crowdsourcing, the 'wisdom of crowds' has been implemented in several varying ways across the web resulting in virtually eliminated “cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.”
Digg and StumbleUpon are two examples of crowd wisdom where most of the labor is provided by the user community completely free of charge for each of the companies, though others such as CambrianHouse, iStockPhoto and Threadless compensate users/sellers through royalties and [...]

When you hear the term citizen journalism, does it ring any bells? It should. It’s been floated about quite a bit over the years. It refers to a sort of “massively multiplayer” method of producing news stories and features, produced “by the people, for the people.”
Many news organizations from around the world latched onto the concept in various ways as Web 2.0-type tools started to look ever more appealing to those esteemed institutions. Yahoo! even made its own attempts [...]

Spigit is a new social community and game that aims to provide a network of support for start-ups and their founders. It is being marketed as a "virtual game" that can simulate the real-life process of starting and building a startup service on the web.
According to the site, the community "provides professionals the ability to showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process build their professional network… through our proprietary simulation they can build and refine an idea, [...]

Are you someone who believes in the wisdom of crowds? If so, and you’re creating, thinking about creating, or just plain musing ideas around that cranium as to what you think would be a great concept-turned-real-piece-of-kit, you might want to head on over to Cambrian House.
Cambrian House has had its doors open to the world for a good 10 months already, and it’s entirely based on group effort. You can pitch something and get feedback, offer help to those who’re [...]