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Making the leap from mapping properties to actually implementing projects is a big one, and Sesta says he doesn't have any delusions about how hard it will be. But he sees potential for both...
So if you spot an abandoned bike, snap a picture and send it to bikes@wnyc.org. If the location feature on your phone or camera is enabled for photos, Transport Nation can pinpoint the exact...
[im]possible living is a tool allowing to easily upload and share information on abandoned buildings on a map. It responds to the need to reassess the world's idle capital of abandoned...
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"The Abandon" is a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. It is a sci-fi TV series. After a possible alien invasion, five black men discover they may be the last humans left on the planet.
Founders' Daniela Galvani and Andrea Sesta talks about their site, [Im]possible Living. [Im]possible living is a crowdsourcing web site that is building the biggest worldwide database of...
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If successful, crowdfunding could open a bevy of new doors for urban renewal projects in economically depressed areas around the country by making it possible to raise capital without having to...
Are competition-based creative crowdsourcing platforms a fair predictor of where things might be headed in the world of crowdsourcing? Perhaps, the start of a movement in high-volume competition platforms is a predictor that we are entering the next phase in the evolution of creative crowdsourcing with the rise of the digital intermediary.
Not all off-shore developers fall into the stigma of "half the price and twice the headache"; however, I've had personal experiencing "off shoring". I've wasting more...
This isn't to say that experts the world over aren't already pooling together their expertise to help out Japan. And in any case, Tokyo Electric Power isn't exactly being forthcoming...
Ideavibes hopes the City of San Francisco takes these ideas and refines them further through deeper crowdsourcing. The winning ideas are as follows: The winning idea in the Transit category, by...
If you’re planning on dusting off the running shoes this summer to raise money for a good cause, new data out from Blackbaud indicates that the most important thing you can do is join Twitter....
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Writer Jocelyn Towne made an appeal to raise money for her book to become a feature film. Her book is about a woman who meets the father who abandoned her as a child. $100,000 was raised from 902...
INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic...
The first NGO to take advantage of the service was Austrian charity association Hope For Dogs, which seeks a new home for abandoned Hungarian dogs. Help For Dogs received 77 proposals in a few...
Using a crowdsourced army of programmers instead of a traditional employed workforce, Ericsson’s Innovation Center in Brazil broke away from the traditions of the office environment and managed to reduce its cost of software production by 30%.
Clearly, this formula yielded positive results — Ericsson’s headquarters in Sweden is planning to implement this solution in other its research centers across the globe. Ericsson expanded the Center this year to meet all demands for customization and development of Latin America and the Caribbean, a sign that the company plans to pursue a similar strategy worldwide.
Crowdfunding, the latest way for start-ups to raise capital in order to launch their products/services, has enjoyed quite a bit of attention recently. Instead of looking for angels and investors to plough large sums of money into their businesses (and be eligible for a return when the company has future liquidity events or IPOs), many would-be entrepreneurs are taking the crowdfunding route. This makes great sense in many ways, one of the most important being that the company founder(s) maintain total control over the business, allowing them to adhere closely to their original ideas and visions.
I first came across the concept of crowdfunding a couple of years ago when I discovered Kickstarter and watched a short video made by the guys who were trying to launch the social network Diaspora, a viable alternative to Facebook that allows users to maintain full ownership of their content. I was so impressed by the enthusiasm of the group and the initiative shown by these really young guys (and the fact that I have children of a similar age) that I donated to the project. This made me wonder what makes other people donate to crowdfunded projects.
In this guest post, the founders of GuideHop talk about what inspired them to build a platform to create more authentic travel experiences by identifying potential travel guides in the crowd and encouraging them to share their knowledge.
WeGoLook seeks to minimize risk for consumers, businesses and property owners by creating an onsite verification report which includes photos, videos,verification of dimensions,and even a seller...
It's a holiday here in the United States today--Presidents' Day, when we commemorate a few of our visionary leaders from the past. In that same spirit, I've compiled a heaping handful of crowdsourced projects I've come across this month that represent the same kind of progressive, forward thinking.
Kevin Lawton thinks Crowdfunding is the sleeper issue of the U.S. Presidential race that nobody is talking about. Not yet, anyway.
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