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Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg is a social news website. Formerly, the site's cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote...
According to Digg CEO Matt Williams, a year from now, Digg will be different because "will have a fantastic zeitgeist of the news product but it will also be many other things to news...
Certain things point to the possibility of Digg returning to glory: If there's one thing that Digg can latch onto, it's the functionality of the site. They have managed to quietly...
Buzzfeed’s closest competitors, Reddit and the newly relaunched Digg, each featured dramatically different stories, from the Syrian rebellion to video game history (and, of course, plenty of...
“Digg and Myspace serve as cautionary tales for hot startups,” says Justin Maas, social media account manager at fishbat. “Once leaders in their respective areas, there were unable to adapt to the...
Reddit moderators previously verified that Digg founder Kevin Rose was the one responsible for posting the AMA submission, and Rose himself sent a link to the page via his Twitter account — thus...
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong followed up his blog post by writing on a Reddit thread that “ In theory advertising revenue should/could scale with traffic, but since we never tried very hard to sell our...
Update #2 (12:45 p.m. PST): After a long delay, Digg founder Kevin Rose is finally addressing some of the questions. One thing that jumped out was his response to his “biggest regret” with Digg,...
When developing new web platforms and products we take what help we can get from any expert that will lend a helping hand. Now we have the means to formalize this approach on a pay-as-you-go basis by leveraging any one of the numerous platforms that have sprung up that provide us with access to an unlimited supply of micro workers. Yet, it makes you wonder where this may lead and whether in fact by diminishing the true value of a Like or a Digg, our actions are resulting in a deflationary spiral which is leading to the devaluation of social currency.
Mission Green takes on climate change by giving people a collective platform from which to address irresponsible and dishonest corporate behavior. Rooted in crowd-sourcing and petition, this game...
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Distributed Knowledge is the most discussed type of crowdsourcing, with the category’s top 15 platforms garnering nearly nine million social media mentions during the examined one-year timeframe. There’s a reason, after all, that the cocktail party definition of crowdsourcing is “Wikipedia, for everything.” Speaking of the community-authored encyclopedia, Wikipedia ranks highest in “absolute buzz” among Distributed Knowledge sites, racking up 2,216,124 total mentions. Social news aggregator Digg comes in a close second with 2,118,646 mentions, followed by social news site Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” which garnered 1,747,223 mentions. Discovery engine StumbleUpon and TomTom, a GPS navigation company that crowdsources map info, round out the top five with 1,247,871 and 476,283 mentions respectively.
A brief article explaining that crowdsourcing provides new opportunities to individuals that might otherwise avail them.
Helium is a knowledge co-operative where the writers are also the editors with each one reading and rating articles on the site. Also referred to as a citizen journalism outlet, Helium offers a...
Cloud Shopper is one of the newest crowdsourcing websites that may just revolutionize the online shopping experience. Launched on December 15, 2010, the new kid on the block adopts the slogan “Everything is better with Friends” and uses this concept to create an interactive solution for users who are invited to Crowdsource the views of their friends.
SuggestionBox.com, headquartered in San Diego, CA, is the exciting new way to send suggestions and then watch ideas turn into action. A place where individuals can share ideas with companies,...
Ironically, the skeptics of open recommendation engines and critics of traditional journals share a concern: that articles might be given visibility for reasons other than quality. In the case of...
What do the world’s social media users think about crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing.org partnered with KL Communications to find out.
Using a tool called Netbase, which indexes and analyzes millions of conversations across the web, Crowdsourcing.org and KLC analyzed data for the top 15 sites generating the most buzz for each of the five main crowdsourcing categories in Crowdsourcing.org’s Directory: cloud labor, crowd creativity, crowdfunding, distributed knowledge and open innovation. This report examines a year of data — timeframe: November 1, 2010 to October 31, 2011 — garnered from Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums, news sites and consumer reviews.
As part of a recent collaboration with KL Communications, Crowdsourcing.org examined the five different kinds of crowdsourcing using sentiment analysis. This third report (in a six-article series) aims to determine how the world’s social media users feel about the 15 top Cloud Labor platforms.
We've already examined how the online public seems to feel about Crowdfunding, as well as Cloud Labor. Now, this week we're going to look at the data for Crowd Creativity platforms.
In case you’re unfamiliar with Jelli, the startup launched back in 2009 as sort of a “Digg for streaming music,” which is how it described itself back then. The core concept, which has been...
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.
