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In the future, Mighty Grams will be expanding their design catalog with current artists and will make use of crowdsourcing by holding contests for new designs. The site will allow design...
The leadership team behind Ladies Home Journal is confident that the reverse crowdsourcing for content model will be a success, and predicts that other print magazines will follow with similar...
With H-D1™ factory customization you can design your own Harley-Davidson® 1200 Custom, and we'll start customizing your bike at the factory. Use the new online H-D1™ Bike Builder to get...
During the Spring of 2012, we will be launching new contests on a regular basis for those interested in joining the ranks of our talented designers! We will be offering a cash reward, in addition...
It is now possible to buy something pretty close to a Star Trek replicator for a few hundred dollars (or a few thousand if you don't want to play Scottie and build from a kit). The era of 3D printing is upon us, and if you listen to some of its devotees, it's going to change the world.
JuicyCanvas works with a roster of global artists and enables consumers to customize the work of others and order high quality prints for their home. SOURCE LINK to the full article:...
Opening up to collaboration can build an engine for growth, innovate and create ideas.
In the last few days, two of the leading global media outlets, The New York Times and The Economist, had quite extensive articles on user innovation, customization, and co-creation.
On February 10, 2011, on page C1 of the New York edition of The New York Times, Patricia Cohen writes about "Innovation Far Removed From the Lab",
The article is a great praise and acknowledgment of the work done by Eric von Hippel.
Zagat Survey® is a business based on a simple premise – that the shared opinions of thousands of avid consumers with real experiences are inherently more accurate than the opinions of just one or...
A print ad would have required too much lead time. Even with a TV commercial, with only three weeks, there wasn't enough time for Zappos to work with its usual agency partner. Instead, the...
An exciting project that may have long-term effects on the crowdsourcing industry recently completed its fundraising on Kickstarter. The Bukobot, created by Diego Porqueras, aims to make 3D printers affordable, the most basic model costing only $599.
Shapeways announced today that it raised $6.2 million from Lux Capital, a New York venture capital firm. The company helps people create objects using 3D printing technology. It has printed over one million products in a number of different materials, ranging from “Elasto Plastic” to sterling silver.
CanvasPop, the Web’s # 1 choice for quality canvas printing, today unveiled their completely redesigned website, http://www.canvaspop.com, featuring a fresh new look and customer submitted...
Jade Magnet is a crowdsourcing platform for creative services. First of its kind in India, it is an ecosystem where services range from branding, advertising, animation, communication, graphic...
Minted is a venture-backed social commerce company, crowd-sourcing graphic designs and content from a global design community and selling those as premium printed paper products initially focused...
In my last post Crowdsourcing Implications for Medium and Large Businesses, I looked at some of the other uses of crowdsourcing beyond the more targeted applications that are being readily adopted by home-office entrepreneurs and small businesses. These included examples in the areas of open-innovation and customer engagement. Another crowdsourcing opportunity relates to the selective out-tasking of highly repetitive, high volume work to a distributed online, on-demand workforce.
Redbubble is an online marketplace, meeting and learning place for people with a creative passion, meaning they can write or they are highly skilled in arts.
Launched in November 2008, Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in more than 300 markets and 35 countries, and soon beyond space. Groupon features a daily...
Outsourcing to a worldwide team of freelancers specialized in design, web design, sounds & more! Wikipedia defines crowdsourcing as "The act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed...
But never mind crowd-sourcing from websites where phoney reviews and picky consumers make it hard to figure out the real deal. Instead, travellers are friend-sourcing, with sites like Trippy.com...
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
