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“For many users, Facebook represents a modern day photo album,” said Evan Conway, President, OneLouder. “The addition of these innovative photo features is another great example of how FriendCaster...
AremaC by Dominik Seibold is an effects app that goes a lot deeper than most. Beginners can use the stock effects. Intermediate users can download more effects from an extensive crowdsourced...
The company "Instagram" is introducing a new, sleeker interface that’s easier to navigate. The updates include a new header, as well as different menu buttons on the bottom of the...
Ash Nashed, the founder and CEO of Adiant, known until now largely for its ad network, thinks he has a solution. Nashed quietly launched CrowdCloud in beta in late February as an app and desktop...
Kumaraguru's team worked around these limitations by relying on crowdsourced spam markers. SMSAssassin learns in the same way as other spam filters, and the researchers hope toone day allow...
There's a nice new Instagram feature called Lux, which is a one-touch image enhancement that uses sharpening and fill light tweaks to improve images, especially backlit or low contrast...
The reason for the migration is twofold:Reddit’s AMAs can draw upwards of a million readers and they stick around for four to five minutes on average.“In terms of scale,it is not unlike going on...
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I coined the term crowdsourcing five years ago in a June 2006 article in Wired magazine. I started my blog the same day the article went live on Wired's site, and for the next three years I covered the rise of crowdsourcing in everything from radiology to journalism to bird watching. When I was writing my book, How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, I used the blog to collect edits and feedback from, well, the crowd.
After three years of ceaseless writing and researching on the subject it was time to move on--literally and figuratively. In late 2009 I became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and relocated my family to Cambridge. In the last two years I've studied subjects ranging from US intellectual history to transmedia storytelling to the connection between social capital and social networks. I started teaching--one course each at Harvard, Boston University, and Northeastern University--and teamed up with the Atlantic.com to create the largest book club in human history. And in September I'll begin a tenure-track position in the journalism department at Northeastern University.
And through all this crowdsourcing was never far from my mind. I've often said I could happily spend the next 30 years of my life studying the emergence of such new forms of economic production as crowdsourcing. What I learned in the last two years is that I might not have a choice: Everything I studied, everything I taught, and everything I read was filtered through the formative lens of that pervasive concept of online collaboration.
CDT Chinese has launched a project to crowd-source filtered keywords on Sina Weibo search. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them (using simplified characters), but some searches...
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I´m am trying to implement a restricted crowdsourcing platform at my company (almost 1000 employees) but we are worried that with could be overloaded with ideas and insights without having enough...
There are around 700 crowdfunding platforms globally but still the majority of the deals go through a few popular players. Its time consuming to go through the niche platforms to find the best one...
A good read thats gives the reader directions/guide/rules to successful crowdsourcing.
This article argues that it is important to filter the information drawn from crowdsourcing to overcome the problem of having too much news all at one time in order to be able to identify the key...
This is classic “crowdsourcing”, where the more people you have weighing in on any specific data point raises the probability of the finding the right answer.
Many scientific advancements in prior centuries can be attributed to a single individual or, at most, two to three people that have either independently or jointly innovated. However, advances in technology, global communications and social interactions have meant that the 21st century will be recognized as the century where mass collaboration changes the paradigm.
Citizen Science has become more of a differentiator as scientists are now turning to crowdsourcing to engage large communities of home scientists to help process vast amounts of data and to draw accurate conclusions from scientific research.
Quality control is necessary in all walks of life and crowdsourcing is no different. This will ensure that parameters are used to filter out information that could be inaccurate or misleading.
In the first part of this article I described which types of crowdsourcing currently exist and the benefits of crowdsourcing. In part two, I now explore some of the drawbacks of crowdsourcing.
There are a number of key issues to consider when conducting a crowdsourcing project that have the potential to materially impact the outcome. The potential drawbacks of crowdsourcing often stem from the fact that in crowdsourcing initiatives, online volunteers instead of companies own staff members are executing the work. The use of ‘outside’ workers can present some challenges which I'm going to explore accross the following areas to highlight the potential drawbacks of working with crowds.
Inspired by RJMetrics’ blog post: “The Notorious CEO: Ten Startup 
Commandments from Biggies Smalls”. I realized that Biggie’s lyrics about how to be the perfect drug dealer fit perfectly with the yet unwritten rules of setting up a crowdfunding platform. Let’s see the ten crack commandments and what they entail for aspiring crowd funders…
Some crowdsourcing websites have turned a blind eye to ensuring that participants that are giving their contribution online have the necessary skills and drive to give their best. This often...
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.
