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Here are some highlights of the first ever crowdsourcing hackathon, CrowdHack: 1. crowdsourced barometer readings via app installed on mobile phones to collect barometric pressure data and...
In this video, Tom Puskarich, VP Business Development of cloudfactory.com talks about CrowdHack. The hackathon brought together crowd hackers and techies and were given an environment to have fun...
Hatforce is a “crowdsourcing security testing service” complete with its own crowd of expert hackers. Hatforce CEO Arthur Gervais explained: “we want to answer the question: how’s your...
The goal of the iGloLED project on crowdfunding site-Kickstarter is to make it easy for developers to hack. The platform uses a simple http command interface so people can access the hardware...
The new contest, called Hacking Education: A Contest for Developers and Data Crunchers, inviteS contestants to use DonorsChoose's data to create new analyses or apps for their website. The...
GovTogether is about shifting POWER to the PEOPLE so that they may vote DIRECTLY on legislation through their elected representatives. They are building a web-based utility that will leverage the...
The Data Hub's initial store consists of 83 datasets provided by the W3C Linking Open Data Interest Group, including the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas - a record of gene expressions recorded from...
Undoubtedly, criminals will continue to innovate and develop new tactics to grow their profits from crime-sourcing. Whether this crime trend continues unabated depends on the ability of the police...
Here's how The Eatery works: You snap a photo of your meal and caption it. The app guesses where you are (you can adjust this as well as your portion size) and then you drag the picture onto...
A primary focus of the organization is toward intensive development meet-ups, teach-ins, and hackathons, in person, on the farm. Just after landing at my new rural summer farm home and...
This conference will convene a day long series of discussions to highlight the emerging, disruptive forces changing the landscape of the global community. Key panels include the following topic...
The conference will convene a day long series of discussions to highlight the emerging, disruptive forces changing the landscape of the global community. Key panels include the following topic...
“We believe that the core PC Gaming audience is really hungry for a game that can deliver a deep core experience, interesting choices, and more control over how you look as an individual, as well...
Jessica Day writes in to discuss the recent 'Dub the Dew' campaign that went horribly wrong for one of Mountain Dew's customers. She compares it to a few successful crowdsourcing campaigns and offers tips on how to recover from "mobsourcing."
The crowdsourced radio platform Jelli wants to enable everyone to have a say in what songs get airtime on local radio stations. The California-based platform has been around since 2009, crowdsourcing its users’ votes on what to listen to next. It recently raised $9 million from a number of investors and plans to expand internationally.
Draft multiple-choice examination seeks to educate and qualify new/unsophisticated investors by outlining common "risk factors" or "red flags" for online investing.
As Occupy Wall Street unfolded right outside her window, Molly Crabapple sketched posters for the movement in real time. "Shell Game" began as a Kickstarter project. It's worth...
When I coined the word crowdsourcing five years ago, the phenomenon itself hardly existed. Oh sure, there were a few glaring examples: Wikipedia, of course, and that massive hurly burly of user-generated content known as MySpace. NASA, I recall, was already experimenting with using volunteers to measure asteroid craters. But the original article was, in a sense, an act of prognostication. I was saying, "This is how things will be." It was a gamble, and it happened to pay off.
A lot changed between 2006 and 2008, when my book was published. In writing the book I faced an entirely new challenge. I no longer had to predict the future; I had to analyze and interpret the present. Books force you to create taxonomies by their very structure: Chapters are subdivisions of a larger subject.
The problem was that examples of crowdsourcing now proliferated across every domain of human endeavor. When asked what couldn't be crowdsourced, I used to answer: a restaurant. Then one day a Washington Post reporter called to ask me what I thought about a new--you guessed it--crowdsourced restaurant. My answer to that question these days? Everything can be crowdsourced. I figure it's best to play it safe.
In trying to bring some coherence to this dizzying variety of online collaborations I came up with four basic categories:
Open innovation is rapidly changing the way organizations tackle tough problems. Even the United States government loves open innovation, using its Challenge.gov platform to monitor pollution, improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and crowdsource a “next-generation” combat vehicle, among other initiatives.
ChallengePost, which runs Challenge.gov for the federal government in addition to software competitions for private companies, firmly believes that competition breeds innovation. We spoke with Brian Koles, business development manager at ChallengePost, who explained the myriad benefits of open innovation.
Today, as the Ouya Android-based open source gaming console begins taking orders from regular consumers, we are witnessing a major milestone in how a product launch can tap Kickstarter to go all the way from concept to retail store shelves.
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