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Crowdsourcing enables consumers & companies to bypass existing middlemen. Just post a competition and appoint your own jury (colleagues/customers). You set the requirements, like theme and type...
“It works by categorising hundreds of thousands of news stories from across the Web, and monitoring Twitter and Facebook to see which have been shared the most in the past few minutes or hours,”...
Take Ford’s Instagram campaign from last year as an example: The Fiestagram. Dividing the campaign over the course of a month, fans were asked to submit Instagram photos relating to a specific...
This isn’t necessarily new to Vancouver. In 1994, a riot started when the Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup finals. But this time, social media platforms like Twitter are...
GoSpotCheck is doing a couple of things very right. By providing valuable information to brands, it’s giving them data that would often take months to find, previously. By paying consumers to do...
Some of the many problems that crowdsourcing can fix for you: 1. Raise funds for your project 2. Buy your friends a present 3. Watch your favorite movie in a theater 4. See your favorite...
The Next Web caught up with the Wikipedia man to get some insights on where Wikipedia is today, censorship in China, languages, donations, his for-profit Wikia website…and why he hates the word...
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In this interview, "Wikipedia man" Jimmy Wales share some insights on where Wikipedia is today, censorship in China, languages, donations, his for-profit Wikia website…and why he hates...
While the rate of donations may slow, the feeling that the government is trying to bully Weiwei out of the way is such that many are donating to his cause to signal discontent with the state’s...
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Spotify recently confirmed that it has 2.5 million paying customers, while countless others use the service which was recently found to be more popular than IM, blogs and games in its native...
As a result of Altodot’s Latin American origins, The Fan Machine’s platform is currently available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. According to the startup’s CEO Anton Chalbaud, The Fan...
TurnHills crowdsourcing concept is what makes really cool. Users get to share in the experience of adding their favourite stores, and window displays, to the site, and what better time to do...
One of the top ten media apps for 2011 is Bambuser. Bambuser has actually become a tool for citizen journalism, and Egyptian activists have been using the service to broadcast Tahrir Square...
Kickstarter itself has seen monumental growth in the past year, doubling up on the number of projects submitted, and over three times as much money pledged. While the success rate itself hasn’t...
SoundCloud, a crowdsourcing tool to discover, share and listen to music online. Their focus is more on creating and publishing but that also makes it a great place to discover music too.
Firstly, the daily deals marketplace company has bought HyperPublic, a NYC-based local data startup backed by Lerer Ventures and Softbank Capital. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed,...
Mobile is indeed a key part of Hadza’s DNA. According to its co-founder and CEO Diego Alcaíno, the inspiration for Hadza came when he spent time in Silicon Valley and noticed how ubiquitous...
In a blog post launching the challenge, the European Commission calls for the help of the EU’s startup community in shaping its future activities: “If you’ve been involved in...
What’s really cool about the "The Revolution Mosaic App" project is that not only is the final image going to be composed of crowdsourced images submitted through the app, that one main...
The official trailer of the Kickstarter crowdfunding project, "The Revolution Mosaic App", an iPhone app which will bring together 360,000 crowdsourced photos to be stitched together...
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