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In the decades since that awakening, David Kelley has worked his way to the forefront of design innovation. His consulting firm, IDEO, is a worldwide leader in the user-centered design of...
Ideacomb is focused at providing customized Idea Management solutions to various verticals according to their needs.
inPulse, the company behind the upcoming Pebble Smartwatch, today released a video demonstrating the gadget’s user interface. In the brief demo, Pebble UI designer Martijn Thé highlights a few features of the iOS- and Android-compatible watch, including the ability to play music, receive calls, and check email via the device’s e-ink screen.
Ardent fans and many industry veterans of the computer game industry advocate that the general lack of creativity in game development has caused a rippling effect that leaves leading and blooming game developers clinging to the hope of making the next “big come back” to wow gamers. Sadly, this has been far from reality for some; and in a world where only the best game developer gets to take home the bigger sales check, many have decided to blow open the doors of their own restricted environment to welcome a more democratic approach in game design.
Rob Miller, associate professor and leader of the User Interface Design Group in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, whose research lies at the intersection of user...
Scripto is a light-weight, open source, tool that will allow users to contribute transcriptions to online documentary projects. The tool will include a versioning history and full set of editorial...
Some Kickstarter creators don't even need the funding. The company iCache, creators of the Geode, used Kickstarter predominantly for market research and price setting. Other companies have...
GigsTask is a market place to Find Freelancers and Micro Jobs Online. Things people do for a fiver. Best available fiverr alternative. What can you do for 5$ - The online community where people...
"Actipedia is about sharing the ways people challenge power and envision a better society," adds Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Lab. "To change the world we've got to learn from each...
Founded in 2008, Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up Pixazza provides a self-servicing platform allowing users to “…shop for products directly from photos” by clicking them, thanks to a combination of algorithmic technology and of course, crowdsourcing. The start-up’s new approach and cost-per-click advertisement model provides marketers with an extremely targeted, visualized and cost-efficient means of reaching audiences utilizing a large network of product experts and publishers.
The MCPC conference series started out in 2001 as a bi-annual conference devoted to mass customization & personalization. The content has broadened in recent years, including also customer co-creation, user innovation, and other strategies of customer-driven value creation (hence, MCPC = Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation"). In 2011, the conference will bridge MCPC with a topic that has driven and inspired the field since several years: open innovation.
When Jeff Howe coined the term crowdsourcing back in 2006, he defined it as »the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call » (this definition is still on Wikipedia). Today, other buzzwords like co-creation and open innovation flood the marketing and innovation blogs. To know what’s happening with crowdsourcing, let’s just take a look at how the platforms based on crowdsourcing principles evolve. Let’s take a look at different types of platforms using crowdsourcing principles : virtual ad agencies, creativity platforms and (still) the crowd-sourcers.
VIRTUAL AD AGENCIES
I recently found an interesting blog post about discussing well-known crowdsourcing websites. Peter La Motte, president of GeniusRocket, describes how his websites’ model is not an open crowdsouring platform anymore, but rather « an agency powered by the crowd «. This means that ideas and storyboards are crowdsourced, but they only go into production when the client has given feedback and approves the project. This is the main difference with open platforms like Poptent or eYeka, who are open platforms for various creative people who can choose which projects they want to participate in. Other virtual ad agencies include Victors&Spoils, founded by John Winsor (a review of his book Flipped here), and Tongal. I like Tongal’s video because it explains how the crowd is leveraged to select and refine ideas:
Tom Erickson, designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group at IBM's Watson Labs in New York, believes in crowdsourcing as a force capable to bring to citizens the ability to change the landscape of their cities and effectively create a more intelligent and livable environment. In his paper Geocentric Crowdsourcing and Smarter Cities: Enabling Urban Intelligence in Cities and Regions, Mr. Erickson explores the application of crowdsourcing to cities and regions – what he called “geocentric crowdsourcing.”
In his opinion, rather than people as passive subjects of increasingly ‘smart’ systems developed by tech companies, the vision is that smarter cities can offer a variety of ways for humans to act as first class participants, contributing their abilities to sense, analyze and act. Mr. Erickson focuses his research on designing systems that enable groups of people to interact coherently and productively: originally focused on online systems, the scope of his work has expanded to include real world environments ranging from rooms to cities.
Responding to some questions from Crowdsourcing.org, Mr. Erickson explained the concept of Geocentric Crowdsourcing and his practical application to the cities.
Collaborative Translation Company Lingotek To Announce Contest Winner at World’s Largest Crowdsourcing Conference
Lingotek, a leading provider of collaborative translation solutions, is offering crowdsourcing fans the chance to win a prize in a contest held just before this year’s CrowdConf2011, the world’s first and largest conference on the future of distributed work. The contest, presented by Lingotek, will award the prize to the contestant with the best essay related to the importance of translation in global business.
The winner of the contest will be awarded access to Lingotek’s award-winning Collaborative Translation Platform—Hosted Version for one year as well as two tickets to the world’s largest crowdsourcing conference, CrowdConf2011 (approximate retail value of $36,100). The contest runs from October 6-21, please go to and click on the Contests page. If the contestant “likes” Lingotek on Facebook, enters the required information and shares their best essay related to the importance of language translation for business, the contestant will be entered into the contest. Entries will be judged by Lingotek President and CEO Rob Vandenberg, Crowdflower CEO Woody Hobbs, Crowdflower Founder and Executive Chairman Lukas Biewald and Daily Crowdsource Founder David Bratvold, the judges will present the award on October 25th and recognize the winner on stage at CrowdConf2011. See Official Rules for further information.
“CrowdConf2011 gathers leaders in a field that is fundamentally changing the way work is done around the globe,” said Rob Vandenberg, President and CEO of Lingotek. “Lingotek is one of the technologies on the cutting edge of this shift. We’re proud to be part of this world-changing discussion, as well as award the prize of Lingotek’s crowd-oriented benefits to a lucky winner.”
Luis von Ahn wants to translate the web — all of it. To call him ambitious is an understatement. In a TED Talk that was originally uploaded to YouTube in April 2011, von Ahn introduced Duolingo, a crowdsourced translation project, and boldly proclaimed that with one million users, the site could help to convert the entirety of Wikipedia into Spanish in 80 hours. Free of charge. Even with a slightly more modest prediction of 100,000 users, the task would be completed within five weeks. What von Ahn, an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was proposing, and what Duolingo is now beginning to offer in a private beta, is a crowdsourced translation service that provides every volunteer with a service of their own. What he envisions is a tool that will not just revolutionize the Internet, but education itself.
Here are some ideas from NapkinLabs on how to use crowdsourcing for customer service and support: *Brainstorm new opportunities collaboratively with customers, employees, vendors, and...
Social business seems to have many meanings, but the most powerful is surely "the creation of shared value" for everybody in a business value chain. Customer co-creation projects are a good case in point. Super-users of a product get new insights into the product and an opportunity to be involved in its design — value for the product manufacturer, value for the user.
To explore this topic, Haydn Shaughnessy worked with Global Dawn, the social business platform, to create an infographic that traces the history of social business — but this is a crowdsourced project.
For a few weeks earlier this year, crowdfunding and the JOBS Act was a top story in the national news media that all the pundits were discussing, debating or screaming about, depending on which personality you flavor your morning coffee with. Typically, the argument centered around the possibility for increased fraud that would follow when unaccredited investors are allowed invest in startups over the Internet. The common response from the crowdfunding community had something to do with the lack of fraud on existing crowdfunding platforms in Europe and donation-based sites like Kickstarter. The community on these platforms does and will continue to act as a self-policing force, the argument goes.
This week there's evidence that both sides could be right.
Every so often, we stumble across a crowdfunded project so cool we need to learn more about it — then share our newfound knowledge with everyone we know. That’s why we’re starting this semi-regular “Crowdfunding Spotlight” feature, where we speak to the people behind the most audacious and exciting crowdfunding campaigns. In this inaugural spotlight article, we speak with Ari Atkins, co-founder of Unplugged Instruments and designer of the Unlimited Electric Guitar.
The free application (Blackberry, iPhone and Android) called Traffic Alert provides voice alerts for traffic problems arising on the commuter’s route. The data is gathered through passive...
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.
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