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Stanford humanities scholars harness the power of crowdsourcing
article Distributed Knowledge

Developed as a collaboration between Stanford researchers and Historypin, a nonprofit organization that facilitates the sharing of historical materials online, Year of the Bay has already...

Fritz SchaeferMay 23, 2013 01:02 pm GMT86 views
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Stanford humanities scholars harness the power of crowdsourcing
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Stanford humanities scholars harness the power of crowdsourcing
article Distributed Knowledge

Developed as a collaboration between Stanford researchers and Historypin, a nonprofit organization that facilitates the sharing of historical materials online, Year of the Bay has already...

Fritz SchaeferMay 23, 2013 01:02 pm GMT86 views
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Stanford humanities scholars harness the power of crowdsourcing
Article One Partners Announces Winners for Veterans Program
document Distributed Knowledge

Crowdsourcing website - Article One Partners (AOP), announced on May 16th that Mr. Maples, an Iraq war veteran, will receive an additional $5,000 for his exemplary performance in the research...

Benjamin FosselMay 23, 2013 12:18 pm GMT163 views
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Article One Partners Announces Winners for Veterans Program
U.Va. Library, Mountain Lake Tap Crowds to Digitize Records of Bugs, Plants and Birds
article Distributed Knowledge

A new online project, brought to life with the help of a team from the University of Virginia Library and Mountain Lake Biological Station, is turning to crowdsourcing to help solve the problem....

Jason RobbinsMay 23, 2013 10:23 am GMT101 views
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U.Va. Library, Mountain Lake Tap Crowds to Digitize Records of Bugs, Plants and Birds
Westport Parents Create School Bus Tracking App
article Distributed Knowledge, Tools

Working with a technical partner, “Where’s Our School Bus?” was born. The app works by crowdsourcing bus location information from parents and students who use the app. The information provided by...

Samuel BennettMay 23, 2013 09:17 am GMT177 views
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Westport Parents Create School Bus Tracking App
Why Urban Dictionary Comes In Handy On The Witness Stand
article Distributed Knowledge

So crowd source basically means anyone who wants can write a definition of any word. They could, in theory, make it up and sometimes they do. And all you have to do is get five other people who...

Samuel BennettMay 23, 2013 01:08 am GMT200 views
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Why Urban Dictionary Comes In Handy On The Witness Stand
BMW Guggenheim Lab Maps the Trends Shaping Our Cities
article Distributed Knowledge

The BMW Guggenheim Lab, a traveling think tank/community discussion space, released today their latest list of urban trends, gleaned from almost six months’ worth of workshops held in Mumbai,...

Harshida PatelMay 22, 2013 01:35 pm GMT218 views
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BMW Guggenheim Lab Maps the Trends Shaping Our Cities
Tellwut Online Survey Finds That 46% Of Working Women Have Experienced Gender Pay Discrimination
document Distributed Knowledge

In an online survey conducted on Tellwut’s digital online marketing site, over 2,000 panel members were asked whether they felt that women living within North America were being paid less than...

Jayne AnnMay 22, 2013 10:28 am GMT242 views
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Tellwut Online Survey Finds That 46% Of Working Women Have Experienced Gender Pay Discrimination
The shadow of death [Crowdfunding Campaign on RocketHub]
video Cloud Labor, Crowdfunding, Distributed Knowledge

Is a video-art about dance and coreography. Based in a picture a dancer create representative performance, increasing the beauty. Named "Jesucristo" http://meetinarts.com/call/3789?i=4098...

Bárbara MedinaMay 22, 2013 10:22 am GMT471 views
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The shadow of death [Crowdfunding Campaign on RocketHub]
World War Water
article Crowdfunding, Distributed Knowledge

According to Paul Brody, the introduction of funding Web sites, like Kickstarter and information archives like Wikipedia, which function through contributions from the masses, has made collective...

Jason RobbinsMay 22, 2013 09:32 am GMT285 views
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World War Water
First Full-Fledged Weather App with Crowdsourced Data Released
document Distributed Knowledge, Tools

"All current weather crowdsourcing applications have users send observations into a black hole, with little to no apparent benefit for them. That's not the case with SkyMotion, which...

Claire MackayMay 22, 2013 06:14 am GMT299 views
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First Full-Fledged Weather App with Crowdsourced Data Released
Use Airbnb in NYC? You May Be Breaking the Law
article Distributed Knowledge

The ruling determined that a man who rented out his apartment using the booking service violated a 2011 law against illegal hotels that prevents landlords from renting property for less than a...

Tonya Van Dijk May 22, 2013 02:24 am GMT281 views
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Use Airbnb in NYC? You May Be Breaking the Law
Using crowdsourcing to map environmental hazards
article Distributed Knowledge

IVAN, uses crowdsourcing to collect reports of incidents such as illegal-dumping, foul-smelling air, and more. People can report a problem in minutes via computer or mobile device, in English or...

Fritz SchaeferMay 21, 2013 01:59 am GMT361 views
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Using crowdsourcing to map environmental hazards
‘MY World’ Survey – first results – half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities
article Distributed Knowledge

MY World, the United Nations global survey for a better world (www.myworld2015.org) is a groundbreaking initiative inviting citizens to virtually take their seat at the UN and participate in the...

Claire MackayMay 20, 2013 02:41 am GMT323 views
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‘MY World’ Survey – first results – half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities
JWT Crowdsources For Portfolio Nights. Converts Tweets Into Posters And Films
article Distributed Knowledge

JWT has embarked on a crowdsourcing journey for campaigning using social media along with print, radio, outdoor, etc. Advertising students were asked to share their thoughts on advertising using...

Jason RobbinsMay 20, 2013 01:49 am GMT236 views
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JWT Crowdsources For Portfolio Nights. Converts Tweets Into Posters And Films
#Saudi Arabia world’s 2nd most Twitter-happy nation
article Distributed Knowledge

Manal Assaad, a social media strategist and marketing consultant at the Manalyst, added that Twitter is also a great platform for crowdsourcing, where, with just a single tweet, you can reach...

Jayne AnnMay 20, 2013 01:18 am GMT216 views
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#Saudi Arabia world’s 2nd most Twitter-happy nation
Trashswag
site Distributed Knowledge / Local Community

Trashswag is a crowdmap for people to share and post reusable materials that have been left outside

Gavin CameronMay 19, 2013 01:12 pm GMT166 views
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Trashswag
ChainDate
site Distributed Knowledge / Social (or Peer) Production

ChainDate is the world's first Crowdsourced matchmaking site. ChainDate learns your taste in people and matches you only with those that you define as "Your Type", and only with...

Archenette EvangelioMay 19, 2013 10:29 am GMT311 views
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ChainDate
Docracy
site Distributed Knowledge / Reference

Docracy is a home for contracts and other legal documents, socially curated by the communities that use them. Their mission is to make these documents freely available for everyone, while in the...

Archenette EvangelioMay 19, 2013 07:01 am GMT325 views
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Docracy
Jurify
site Distributed Knowledge / Reference

Jurify is the home for top-tier attorneys and blue chip executives involved with the law. Created by experienced lawyers who grew tired of the painfully cloistered way law was practiced, Jurify...

Archenette EvangelioMay 19, 2013 03:26 am GMT429 views
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Jurify
HeTexted
site Distributed Knowledge / Q & A

HeTexted is the first Q&A service dedicated to dating questions.

Archenette EvangelioMay 19, 2013 02:35 am GMT314 views
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HeTexted
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