Web's Largest listing of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding events
Web's Largest Directory of Sites2,363 crowdsourcing and crowdfunding sites
Here are three points that author Joe McKendrick in answer to whether "there is an ethical quandary to corporate social networking and crowdsourcing?: Many crowdsourcing arrangements do...
Accenture Technology Labs just released its Technology Vision 2012 forecast, which identifies emerging IT developments — based on input from the Labs’ scientists, architects, and engineers, as well...
The MobileWorks API makes programmatic calls to its crowd — thus incorporating actual human intelligence into applications, the vendor says. The embeddable REST-based API that interacts with the...
TopCoder, Inc., a provider of online programming competitions, announced that it is working with the USPTO to launch a contest to draw software developers from around the world to to develop new...
"Crowdsourcers" is one of the disruptive forces that stand out as game-changers for the year ahead. Talk about outside-the-walls innovation. Many organizations will increasingly be...
As the crowdsourcing process matures, the number of ideas will diminish, but the quality of the ideas will increase. So, it’s natural that participation will drop off, but the efficiency of the...
If you are approaching your CEO about opening up your company to innovation from outside your enterprise, Ross Dawson outlines five business cases to be made: 1. Increase flexibility 2....
Allstate put the concept to the test by recently conducting a crowdsourcing competition, in which it sought to gain better insights into the relationship between bodily injury liabilities and...
The Funding Launchpad survey predicts slow uptake once business crowdfunding is legalized, and likely, there won’t be enough funds streaming in to fully support startups using this financing...
McKinsey’s Arne Gast and Michele Zaninishow describes some mainstream corporate crowdsourcing initiatives: *Rite-Solutions, a software provider for the US Navy, defense contractors, and...
The final winning design, to be announced December 12, 2012 (12-12-12, clever) in Times Square, will receive $10,000. Many of the entries will be featured in a book also to be released the same...
Thomas Frey, senior futurist with the DaVinci Institute and publisher of FuturistSpeaker.com, states that crowdsourcing is losing its luster as a means of decision making and innovation, and is...
The next phase for gamification is gathering data on use behavior, Deloitte states. Here’s the business case: “As more platforms track behavioral data, the aggregate of data could provide...
Naveen Jain outlines two reasons why opportunities for disruptive change are coming from cross-pollination of expertise,versus single,narrow bands: -Experts in a given field are constrained by...
Crowd labor currently has some limitations — most offerings depend on specific platforms from individual vendors, and need to be more scalable. Once these limitations are overcome, opportunities...
The competition ends December 31, 2012, and radical new (or common sense) ideas are pouring in, including the following: Move to micro-tasking; Stop labeling workers “vampires” or...
The prediction market is considered a form of crowdsourced collective wisdom, and Intrade has racked up numerous accurate forecasts for events over the years. (For example, throughout the fall, the...
Indeed, the next big thing after crowdsourcing may be “crowd labor,” in which tasks are delivered and return piecemeal, over the Internet, from workers all over the globe. Amazon Mechanical Turk is...
One of the bright outlook for Crowd Labor Platforms is the possibility of traditional business process outsourcing gravitating towards the crowd labor market. Joe McKendrick from smartplanet...
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.
