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With Help from Rival Pundits, Points of Light and JPMorgan Chase Announce National Effort to Unite Unlikely Allies in Service to ‘One America’
document Distributed Knowledge

The One America campaign will include celebrity videos, crowdsourcing and online voting to suggest and encourage potential rivals to come together to serve; local service events and dialogues in...

Tonya Van Dijk Jun 19, 2013 02:28 pm GMT143 views
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With Help from Rival Pundits, Points of Light and JPMorgan Chase Announce National Effort to Unite Unlikely Allies in Service to ‘One America’
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With Help from Rival Pundits, Points of Light and JPMorgan Chase Announce National Effort to Unite Unlikely Allies in Service to ‘One America’
document Distributed Knowledge

The One America campaign will include celebrity videos, crowdsourcing and online voting to suggest and encourage potential rivals to come together to serve; local service events and dialogues in...

Tonya Van Dijk Jun 19, 2013 02:28 pm GMT143 views
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With Help from Rival Pundits, Points of Light and JPMorgan Chase Announce National Effort to Unite Unlikely Allies in Service to ‘One America’
DigitalGlobe... Your Eyes Are Needed For A Most Worthy Effort (Imagery)
article Distributed Knowledge

Upon collection, DigitalGlobe launched it’s recently acquired Tomnod Crowdsourcing System (TCS) to help extract the information from the image. The Tomnod approach is most powerful in situations...

Jason RobbinsJun 19, 2013 08:25 am GMT168 views
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DigitalGlobe... Your Eyes Are Needed For A Most Worthy Effort (Imagery)
NASA Is Clueless Needs Help Of CITIZENS To Track KILLER Asteroids
article Distributed Knowledge

If you decide to join, you would be part of a group of between 50 and 100 amateur astronomers. These astronomers conduct light-curve analysis on space rocks. (This involves making repeated images...

Claire MackayJun 19, 2013 12:55 am GMT203 views
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NASA Is Clueless Needs Help Of CITIZENS To Track KILLER Asteroids
CrowdIt CEO Latest To Join Impressive Roster For Second Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention And Bootcamp
document Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding, Distributed Knowledge

The 2nd Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp (http://www.crowdfundingroadmap.com/bootcamp/) is an exclusive educational and networking opportunity that brings some of the...

Jeremy DouglasJun 18, 2013 04:24 pm GMT431 views
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CrowdIt CEO Latest To Join Impressive Roster For Second Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention And Bootcamp
Scientists turn to the streets for help in monitoring waterways
article Distributed Knowledge, Tools

CrowdHydrology was started in 2011 by Chris Lowry, PhD, a University at Buffalo assistant professor of geology. He came up with the idea after reading about a California researcher who used...

Claire MackayJun 18, 2013 05:14 am GMT205 views
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Scientists turn to the streets for help in monitoring waterways
Julian Assange: From free speech guru to rapper
article Distributed Knowledge

The founder of the crowdsourcing website Wikileaks " Julian Assange " will not be the first person to branch unexpectedly into the music business. Detention has also served as suitable...

Benjamin FosselJun 17, 2013 12:33 pm GMT232 views
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Julian Assange: From free speech guru to rapper
Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom ties up with GE for aviation overhaul
article Distributed Knowledge

Founded as a Melbourne start-up before moving to the US, Kaggle uses the internet and social media to operate online data analysis competitions for tens of thousands of scientists around the world...

Jayne AnnJun 17, 2013 10:37 am GMT211 views
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Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom ties up with GE for aviation overhaul
Crowdsourcing the Evolution of an Industrial Neighborhood: The Granary District’s Journey at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21
article Distributed Knowledge

James Alfandre, Executive Director at the Kentlands Initiative, opened the session by defining crowdsourcing. He thinks of crowdsourcing as an “open call to an undefined group of people.” It’s...

Jason RobbinsJun 16, 2013 01:41 pm GMT399 views
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Crowdsourcing the Evolution of an Industrial Neighborhood: The Granary District’s Journey at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21
Crowdsourcing Success for Ottawa Public Library
article Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation

Who says libraries are dead. Today we took down the crowdsourcing campaign we developed and ran for the Ottawa Public Library called Imagine. You can still visit the website,...

Jason RobbinsJun 16, 2013 11:59 am GMT242 views
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Crowdsourcing Success for Ottawa Public Library
Hubs in Africa
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Digital mapping of African Tech Hubs, Innovation Hubs & Hackerspaces by BongoHive

BongoHiveJun 15, 2013 02:13 pm GMT203 views
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Hubs in Africa
Mobile cancer game to accelerate search for a cure
article Distributed Knowledge

This year, the charity's GameJam saw 55 'hackers', computer programmers, gamers, graphic designers and other specialists collaborate over a weekend to produce 12 prototype mobile...

Tonya Van Dijk Jun 15, 2013 12:23 pm GMT302 views
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Mobile cancer game to accelerate search for a cure
Scientists crowdsource medical research ideas from patients
article Crowdfunding, Distributed Knowledge

The platform is a simple , it’s a combination of crowdsourcing ideas and crowdfunding the research. A person has an idea for a research project , they then record a video explaining their idea....

Fiona MaresJun 15, 2013 05:10 am GMT566 views
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Scientists crowdsource medical research ideas from patients
Social network for hospital patients connects users via similar interests
article Distributed Knowledge

Hoping to be implemented in institutions across the country, the startup offers a platform that enables patients to fill out their interests, alongside their time of stay. The crowdsourcing service...

Pablo BracciniJun 15, 2013 04:34 am GMT255 views
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Social network for hospital patients connects users via similar interests
New York State Joins GitHub to Get Feedback on Open Data Policy
article Distributed Knowledge

He applauded the state for taking an innovative approach by publishing the handbook to GitHub. "[With government] we always cheer when try they new things even if they don't work....

Harshida PatelJun 15, 2013 03:17 am GMT292 views
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New York State Joins GitHub to Get Feedback on Open Data Policy
Vegetables People Hate According to Ranker.com
document Distributed Knowledge

Ranker.com, a crowdsourcing website that relies on “the wisdom of crowds,” has collected the aggregated opinion of over 1,500 voters on the list of “Vegetables I Won’t Eat.” Voters are able to vote...

Claire MackayJun 15, 2013 02:54 am GMT286 views
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Vegetables People Hate According to Ranker.com
Disaster-mapping project helps spread reports of the Czech floods
article Distributed Knowledge

Valuch notes that the conception of the map was not originally intended to be a humanitarian response site, but rather a tool for citizens to report specifics about the crisis. “The aim was to...

Jason RobbinsJun 14, 2013 09:49 am GMT262 views
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Disaster-mapping project helps spread reports of the Czech floods
Airbnb brings its hyper-local Neighborhoods feature to Asia, starting with Bangkok
article Distributed Knowledge

Crowdsourcing site - Airbnb is furthering its presence in Asia after it introduced its Neighborhoods feature to Bangkok, which becomes the first location in the region to fall under the company’s...

Fritz SchaeferJun 14, 2013 07:28 am GMT255 views
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Airbnb brings its hyper-local Neighborhoods feature to Asia, starting with Bangkok
One Man's Mission to Map More Accessible Cities
article Distributed Knowledge, Tools

On the AXS Map desktop or mobile site, click on a place to view accessibility ratings for a local business' entries and bathrooms on a five-star rating system. The concept is based on...

Jason RobbinsJun 14, 2013 07:02 am GMT252 views
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One Man's Mission to Map More Accessible Cities
Freelancer Wants to Meet the Best Filipino Software Developers
article Cloud Labor, Distributed Knowledge

Global outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace Freelancer recognizes the growing community of software developers in the Philippines. Also operating locally, it has been an advocate of IT...

Samuel BennettJun 14, 2013 05:54 am GMT170 views
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Freelancer Wants to Meet the Best Filipino Software Developers
Oxford English Dictionary Adds 'Crowdsourcing,' 'Big Data'
article Distributed Knowledge

" Crowdsourcing " is one of the tech terms that made the cut in this year's version of The Oxford English Dictionary, while "follower" and "tweet" will be given...

Benjamin FosselJun 14, 2013 05:32 am GMT257 views
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Oxford English Dictionary Adds 'Crowdsourcing,' 'Big Data'
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