Web's Largest listing of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding events
Web's Largest Directory of Sites2,360 crowdsourcing and crowdfunding sites
CNN’s citizen journalism initiative, iReport, has proved extremely valuable as a source of imagery during things like disasters and protests. However, it has also received criticism for not paying...
Olivier Guyon, an optical physicist, astronomer, and 2012 MacArthur fellow, wants to crowdsource planet hunting. The plan is to have amateur astronomers with a Cannon DSLR camera go out and take pictures of the night sky. Using specially crafted software, even DSLR pictures can identify the luminosity of some stars. Guyon plans to create an open-source database with this information, making it easier to identify which stars have planets orbiting around them.
In input-gathering public relations campaigns, amateurs truly are engaging the product in a small way, casting thousands or millions of votes to determine the product they will have an opportunity to purchase next. But this “engagement of the masses” in product development does not translate to real crowdsourcing activities. Really, those with specific interests or professional training are more likely to participate in crowdsourcing contests. These are not everyday people who pick up a video camera and try to produce a commercial.
The iPhone as an all-powerful, all-around, faithful companion? In some cases, this notion is not too far-fetched! A new iPhone app is accomplishing a small miracle through crowdsourcing! It gives the blind man or woman with a camera phone a virtual eye, allowing him or her to cope better with daily life. The true value here is not so much the hardware or software, but rather the community that is behind the application – individuals who are working to improve the quality of life of the visually impaired.
Quite soon users of Microsoft’s search engine Bing will have access to 3D panoramas photos taken by the crowd and shared through Gigwalk’s mobile app. This great push towards a crowdsourced initiative was made possible as a result of an agreement between the giant Microsoft and Gigwalk, a company just nine weeks old, from Mountain View, CA. The agreement was announced this week.
Gigwalk mobile app instantly connects businesses to an on-demand, tech-savvy mobile workforce (Gigwalkers) who gets paid to use their iPhone to collect, capture and report real-world data -- such as verifying a street name, photographing a menu, reporting on red-light cameras, or confirming product placements in stores -- while going about their everyday activities. They called tasks Gigs.
"By combining Gigwalk's tech-savvy mobile force with our popular Photosynth app, we're able to add immersive panoramas to Bing local search results, so people can accurately see the details of a business such as a store or restaurant, " said David Gedye, lead program manager of Bing Mobile. "Gigwalk's network delivers high-quality results, often within 24 hours, and that's hard to beat," he added.
Some of the findings in this study are as follows: - an increase in the average subjectivity of reviews is associated with an increase in sales for products; - some products like digital...
Veokami offers tools for finding, adding and automatically sorting through and formatting different moments of an event. The platform crawls YouTube looking for videos of a specific event, or...
Director Thomas Konkle says, "Our previous successful campaign that allowed us to shoot the opening. The goal for that campaign was to generate funds to shoot the opening scenes of our film....
In this presentation, John Horton suggests 3 things that economists and computer scientists should do for the online labor market: Increase demand for online work - Create work amenable to...
It is human nature to want to denounce injustices and expose wrongdoing - these intrinsic desires can motivate a crowd to play "watchdog"....and so we have seen the rise of crowdsourcing platforms that provide some degree of monitoring, with the goal of reporting irregularities. Sound like a police state? Well, it depends on what is studied and what is revealed!
The Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing (Beijing: September 17-21, 2011) is challenging researchers and practitioners to identify requirements for a platform for crowd computing, arising from experiences in deployment of crowdsourcing applications, which engage crowd members as sensors, controllers and actuators in smart cities and environments.
The Scanbox on Kickstarter is a foldable scanner that’s easy to put together and snaps in place with magnetic buttons. The scanner, made from a high-quality laminated card, works with most...
Siok Siok, a Singaporean TV producer, calls the movie “crowdsourced” since it weaves together the HD video she shot with YouTube and Skype videos and with digital photos. That makes for some...
Open innovation is rapidly changing the way organizations tackle tough problems. Even the United States government loves open innovation, using its Challenge.gov platform to monitor pollution, improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and crowdsource a “next-generation” combat vehicle, among other initiatives.
ChallengePost, which runs Challenge.gov for the federal government in addition to software competitions for private companies, firmly believes that competition breeds innovation. We spoke with Brian Koles, business development manager at ChallengePost, who explained the myriad benefits of open innovation.
Over the next several weeks, Karinna Kittles-Karsten will be keeping a journal of her crowdfunding journey and sharing it with us here on Crowdsourcing.org. Karinna has decided to turn to crowdfunding to help raise support for her TV series, "Love Around the World," and she'll be sharing all the milestones, accomplishments, mistakes and lessons learned along the way in this exclusive series. In this first installment, Karinna explains how she made the decision to crowdfund and shares some insights into her preparations for the big campaign.
Michael Bernstein introduces computational techniques that decompose complex tasks into simpler, verifiable steps to improve quality and optimize work. He presents two crowd-powered systems:...
DARPA is funding research to record, crowdsource, and store everyday conversations.
Regular attendees at concerts will be familiar with the disappointment of a band’s live show failing to live up to the album, especially considering travel and ticket costs. Using crowdsourcing...
Amazon Studios is a bit different from normal script development companies. Amazon, in its usual flair for the web, decided to crowdsource the script writing process. Anyone can able to submit...
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.
