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The author interestingly argues about the advantages and disadvantages of community managed customer/product support for both, customers and companies.
An essential read that shares best practices for Web 2.0 development. Very useful information and well written. Top tips on software design, development and release.
This articles talks about the project Assignment Zero, an attempt to crowdsource journalism.
This article talks about open source can lead to innovation and provides examples on how open source has lead to some of the greatest innovations.
This article provides a lot of information on crowd wisdom providing information on companies that have been selected as technology pioneers in 2008 as a result of their achievements.
Daren C Brabham, Ph.D.is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches and conducts research in...
Open source has indeed completely evolved the approach of application development. It has certainly created more room for innovation since open source does away with the limitations of traditional...
Crowdsource and Open source may sound similar but they should be treated differently because they differ in many ways.
Very comprehensive! It's a must that you read this to understand what crowdsourcing is, how it works and its potential.
Presented by Dr Matthew Todd, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney. Science shaped itself in the founding days of learned societies: individuals or teams competed, in secret, with...
Crowdsourcing has been a good start. But to solve the harder, more interesting, problems we should look at the open source and open content communities.
The writer, Darren Sharp presents his pick of the world’s best Gov 2.0 initiatives: 10) SeeClickFix 9) Manor Labs 8) The Australian Government 7) Public Sector Innovation 6) Place-based...
With the Ushahidi Platform, itʼs easier than ever to get critical and timely information to those that need it most, on a platform that almost everybody can use.
Founded by Luke Fretwell in May 2009, Govfresh.com features Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people and official U.S. government feeds, all in one place.
As an open operating system, Linux is developed collaboratively, meaning no one company is solely responsible for its development or ongoing support. Companies participating in the Linux economy...
Having proven its worth in high scale, high demand environments, Linux is today being chosen time and again by cloud providers and their customers. Where the likes of Amazon and Google once...
The Daily Dot is a bold experiment in open-source journalism about the biggest and indubitably most awesome community in the world: the Web community.
This report draws on an original empirical investigation of Map Kibera, a community information platform that takes advantage of open ICTs, and similar initiatives to provide key insights on the...
Currently in Beta, Pocket hotline lets you leverage your existing customers, who already use your product, love it, and are excited to share their knowledge. Pocket Hotline makes it easy to...
Bitcoin is the first digital currency that is completely distributed. The network is made up of users like yourself so no bank or payment processor is required between you and whoever you're...
I recently spoke to John Bernier from Best Buy, the discussion about Twelpforce as a highly innovative approach to real-time customer service to learn more about the opportunities for crowdsourcing customer service. More recently I interviewed Gioacchino La Vecchia, Chairman and CEO and a co-Founder of CrowdEngineering who, through his CrowdForce platform, is a forerunner in the development of enterprise-class Social CRM solutions. It would seem that international recognitions by industry analysts Gartner and Altimeter, who awarded the accolades of “cool vendor” and “the one to watch” in Social CRM, preceeding last week’s announcement that CrowdEngineering had closed a $4m Series A Round the crowd may have a big role to play in servicing itself!
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