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From a full read of this article at it's source you will find a good set of questions regarding the present and future of peer production.
The article differentiates between corporate and civil peer production provide examples that contrast the alternatives.
A good read for it describes how peer production can help communities grow.
Crowdsourcing is a form of peer production whereby companies and organizations outsource projects by leveraging the so-called “wisdom of the crowd” through distributed collaboration. In contrast...
Peer production must be modular, that means that objectives must be divisible into tasks or components that can be independently produced and later combined with the efforts of others. One of the...
The author suggests that financial meltdown actually helps peer production and social networks.
An insightful synopsis of of p2p theory and the behavioral drivers of peer production.
This post makes the important distinction between crowdsourcing and commons-based peer production.
Social lending is just another example of the Internet's ability to create more ways to connect communities in mutually beneficial ways. Along with the ability to accelerate time to market for...
The attractiveness of “peer production”, freeing people from the compulsive and pathogenic ways of companies, is the real driving force of exodus, even if start-ups can also find themselves...
Doctors around the world can exchange insight and information over the internet. Crowdsourcing is helping more and more doctors research, publish and discuss findings amongst their peer groups....
The term “crowdsourcing” desperately needs some boundaries. Too many people have liberally applied the term to all manner of online—and offline—phenomena, but I argue crowdsourcing is, in fact, quite a narrowly defined concept. It is important to rein in crowdsourcing, because if the term rests on muddy foundations, people will continue to draw unstable, untested conclusions about the power and purpose of this model. I have dedicated my young academic career to the study of crowdsourcing, and I want to assert a clearer definition of crowdsourcing here for the sake of continued scholarly study and practical application.
MicroVentures is a "peer to peer" lending platform that connects investors with businesses that need funding. They act as the mediator between the two with the policies and guidelines...
Some of the most notable additions to Kaboodle’s coterie of innovative social shopping features and offerings include: Style Friend Finder The new Style Friend Finder instantly connects and...
BluePatent is a watchdog against product piracy and invalid patents. Through crowdsourcing a global internet comunity can participate in this effort. We publish search requests for companies...
Mytonomy is a video-based social network that connects advice seekers and advice givers, to deliver near-peer mentoring about key college and career topics. Mytonomy inspires young people in...
The study “Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas Under Consumer Learning” finds that crowdsourcing is not the misguided fad that some critics have suggested but that the process of crowdsourcing...
Among the 76 companies who pitched their products at the first ever DEMO Asia conference, the following upholds crowdsourcing methods: Lobangclub provides location-based crowdsourced price...
Recent indications suggest that the peer-to-peer lending industry in the United Kingdom is nearing its tipping point. The sector is servicing a universal need and developing innovative, vibrant business models to compete against each other. But why now? And what’s driving the tip? Here are five key reasons why we might be about to see explosive growth in a disruptive sector.
The concept of peer-to-peer economies, he mentions, is based around people doing business directly with each other—a concept already coming about through websites like eBay and Amazon, which let...
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