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You won’t get any shares in Wired City for contributing, but you will get “privileges for being a founding member,” including a “day of cyber-living on the Wired City set (non-transferable)” and...
The Wired City is an Internet television network that enables the audience to watch and interact with each other (chat-video, text and audio). The citizens in the Wired City are you, your friends...
Wired is partnering with The Guardian and New York University in a project called the “Citizens’ Agenda” ahead of Wednesday night’s Republican presidential nominee debate in Arizona – the last...
Wired.co.uk recently selected DesignCrowd as its Startup of the Week. This style of crowdsourced design is a burgeoning part of the profession, capitalised upon by similar companies such as...
On Crowdspring the average contributor has close to 10 years of experience in the design industry (one out of 10 Crowdspring creative have more than 20 years of experience). In addition, their...
Director Kevin MacDonald and his team plowed through 80,000 submissions to assemble final footage for the film, and judging from the trailer, Life in a Day focuses on remarkably picturesque...
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Jeff Howe looks back on his first encounter with the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and ventures a cautious look into the future. Five years have already passed since Jeff Howe's groundbreaking article in Wired magazine was published, which marked the beginning of the crowdsourcing movement. "Not a day passes that I am not surprised at how quickly the model developed and what great ideas emerged from this," Howe said in his keynote speech during in Berlin. Click here for German.
I coined the term crowdsourcing five years ago in a June 2006 article in Wired magazine. I started my blog the same day the article went live on Wired's site, and for the next three years I covered the rise of crowdsourcing in everything from radiology to journalism to bird watching. When I was writing my book, How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, I used the blog to collect edits and feedback from, well, the crowd.
After three years of ceaseless writing and researching on the subject it was time to move on--literally and figuratively. In late 2009 I became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and relocated my family to Cambridge. In the last two years I've studied subjects ranging from US intellectual history to transmedia storytelling to the connection between social capital and social networks. I started teaching--one course each at Harvard, Boston University, and Northeastern University--and teamed up with the Atlantic.com to create the largest book club in human history. And in September I'll begin a tenure-track position in the journalism department at Northeastern University.
And through all this crowdsourcing was never far from my mind. I've often said I could happily spend the next 30 years of my life studying the emergence of such new forms of economic production as crowdsourcing. What I learned in the last two years is that I might not have a choice: Everything I studied, everything I taught, and everything I read was filtered through the formative lens of that pervasive concept of online collaboration.
To make sure it has a candidate who’s up to scratch, the agency is inviting hobbyist cryptanalysts to try and break a code online. A website called “can you crack it” is being spread through a...
“Amit is definitely going to get a transplant as a result of what we’re doing,” says Jackie Dechongkit, who helps run the campaign. “But we’re sort of in wait-and-pray mode because historically,...
If you are in a good position to see the eclipse, you can participate in another fun digital project designed to measure the distance to the moon. Participants are asked to submit photographs to...
From a technological perspective, Vlach had (and still has) two options: fit a wireless webcam into her eye, or wait for a new generation of cameras that could be connected directly to the brain....
Republique was hovering around $250,000 several days ago and looked unlikely to reach the funding goal that developer Camouflaj had set for the stealth action game being created for the PC, Mac,...
The success of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter has been hard to ignore recently. But these services aren't all about funding throwaway products and projects -- some are using the...
OK.com is a crowdsourced media ratings service that launches their online family guide today. Initially, the site will focus on providing family movie recommendations made by both trusted friends...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a lot of information, acquired from telescopes, satellites, rovers, spacecraft, and pretty much anything you can point at space. They have so much, it’s almost...
is run by InnoCentive, a crowd-source contest host. Solvers who enter InnoCentive contests are typically quite diverse, says Steve Bonadio, the company’s vice president of marketing. Entrants often...
Journalist Dan Misener, who runs Kickstarter project-tracking site The KickBack Machine, says Kickstarter should be clear about its policies, and provide a public explanation when it removes a...
The sentiment was shared by Wil Shroter, founder of Fundable, a crowdfunding platform for small businesses. People who invest in a business through crowdfunding and expect to see a return on that...
The video was created by Emily Oberman at design firm Pentagram,and contains pics—solicited online by the band—of children from countries featured in the song. Fans were asked to submit three...
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