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With a sympathetic "Welcome to Windows 8", Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, launched the first post on the “Building Windows 8” blog inviting programmers around the world to crowsdsource the development of the new version of the world dominant operating system. Notifications of posts to the blog will be announced on Twitter stream @BuildWindows8.
“We've been hard at work designing and building Windows 8, and today we want to begin an open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the pre-release version over the coming months”, wrote Mr. Sinofsky, who has been the President of the Windows Division at Microsoft since September 2008, responsible for the development and marketing of Windows, Windows Live, and Internet Explorer.
According to Mr. Sinofsky, Windows 8 reimagines Windows for a new generation of computing devices, and will be the very best operating system for hundreds of millions of PCs, new and old, used by well over a billion people globally. “Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility”, he wrote.
Probably the most important feature that will benefit everyone though is device backup, allowing you to backup a Windows Phone including SMS/MMS, applications, application data and settings.
In reply to a post entitled “MORE WINDOWS PHONE 7.8 FEATURES!!”(via WMPowerUser)–where a user lists a number of features that shouldn’t be Windows Phone 8 specific—Microsoft forum admin ‘Mobile...
Our team is not just looking at traditional news sources, but updates from observers at the scene who are snapping photos with their phones and sending them out on Twitter. And we’re not only...
Microsoft has been drawing on information “crowdsourced” from Windows 7 Phones and by special vehicles with Wi-Fi sniffing antennas. Does this sound familiar? It should. Cast your mind back a few...
Waze, a free mobile navigation application for your iphone or android that allows drivers to build and use live maps, real-time traffic updates.Their free app, which is available on iPhone,...
In the midst of an unstable global economy, governments are striving to accomplish more with fewer resources. Additionally, citizens are looking for governments to embrace the government 2.0 movement, encouraging increased communication, feedback, and transparency of allocated resources. It is a lofty goal, but one that we feel will increase the effectiveness of government while concurrently improving citizens' quality of life.
CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform; with our free mobile apps, we allow citizens to report non-emergency issues back to City Hall. By identifying these civic issues (public safety, quality of life, environmental issues, etc.) with a smartphone, citizens are able to snap a photo, shoot video or record audio and easily report issues directly to the city's appropriate department. In addition, our mobile reports provide additional data points about the problem, most specifically the GPS location. From these reports, the city can then respond directly to the user to keep citizens informed of all relevant progress.
It’s turning out to be quite the record-setting day for Kickstarter: in addition to video game developer Double Fine’s adventure project, which raised $1 million USD in a measly 25-hour window, a second project today surpassed the $1 million mark in total funds raised through the crowdfunding platform.
Microsoft assembled the database through crowdsourced data gathering from Windows Mobile 7 devices and through what it calls "managed driving" by Street View-like vehicles that record...
On Monday, in a packed convention hall in Sao Paulo, Brazil, over three hundred practitioners, eager entrepreneurs, and curious bystanders’, watched, listened and scribbled intensely as the 1st International Conference on Crowdsourcing, Communities and Co-creation got underway. The full agenda accommodated a line-up of crowdsourcing professionals who presented their business models, provided real-world examples and shared insights into the must-knows and the dos and don’ts of crowdsourcing.
The conference itself was the idea of Shaun Abrahamson and Marina Miranda from Mutopo when a few months ago, following calls for assistance and participation, Marina’s large network of connections in Brazil, the US and in Europe started to quickly produce: sponsors, a venue, speakers and then ticket sales.
Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding have been increasingly on the agenda in Brazil over the last twelve months and this was Brazil’s first chance to gather in one place to meet face-to-face to look for the answers to the one question that appeared to capture it all -- the central issue -- “what crazy things can you do in Brazil with the crowd?” As Shaun Abrahamson opened the conference he quote Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, “While the last five years have been about getting connected, the next 5 years are going to be about all the crazy things you can do now that all those people are connected”. There seems to be a lot of crazy things you can do, for sure!
The Imagine Cup has been challenging student competitors to present creative technology solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems for ten years. This year you can design apps specifically...
GoodorGreatIdea.com Founder Mohammed Guller shares his five reasons not to worry about anyone in the crowd stealing your million dollar idea.
Optus director of digital media Austin R. Bryan said the telco’s customers possessed a wealth of first-hand knowledge of the company’s products and services, and My Optus Community aimed to...
An interview with Markus Lampinen talking about the origins of GrowVC and how he is contributing to developing what they refer to as an ‘ecosystem for startups’.
Earlier this year, Yannig Roth began to list all the creative crowdsourcing initiatives he could find, applied to Interbrand’s ranking of the 100 Best Global Brands. The result was this living post on his blog, which he's given us permission to re-post here.
"There are so many great things your smartphone can do with apps - and users are simply not aware of most of this . With AppFlow our goal is to showcase how much apps can add to your phone...
This morning we got news that the U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank in the final quarter of 2012, apparently due to big cutbacks in defense spending. But during the same period, dozens of online job categories saw a worldwide increase, according to Freelancer.com, one of the biggest cloud labor sites around.
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