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According to HackerRank's co-founder Vivek Ravisankar, the original idea of the site was to provide prospective employers leads for hiring coders and charge fees for every successful referral....
Rent a coder offers you a huge list of freelancers who will bid on your project. If you're looking to build a website, make a design, search for writers or any other custom work, then Rent a...
From his perch in San Francisco, Mickiewicz, the cofounder of crowdsourcing site 99designs, observed this sordid phenomenon and decided to flip the equation. DeveloperAuction helps top coders see...
The Presidential Innovation Fellows Program calls upon a handful of innovators from a variety of fields to "help develop innovation solutions in areas of national significance. "We...
The challenge was to analyse the genes involved in the production of antibodies and immune-system sentinels called T-cell receptors.These genes are formed from dozens of modular DNA segments...
There are plenty of sites out there already dedicated to freelance coders, but many pay too little to attract the cream of the crop. That's where CanYouCode seeks to differ, with steps that...
The Autonomous Space Capture Challenge highlights the work of companies like TopCoder and Kaggle, which have taken the idea of crowdsourced competitions and hackathons and turned them into big...
One of the tenets of the open source software movement was that armies of coders and testers would fall-in and self organize driven purely by intrinsic rewards. This was driven by the notion that they could not only build it better, but that closed and restrictive practices were not in everyone’s best interest! So, it would seem that if you could harness the intrinsic motivations of this special breed of individual and further reward their performance, you might just have an unbeatable business model…..maybe uTest has discovered that model?
I was keen to find out what made uTest’s model different and, from the looks of its top name client list, what was underpinning its obvious success. I recently interviewed Matt Johnston, uTest’s Chief Marketing Officer, who shed some light on uTest’s interesting business model.
Open source coding accounts for a significant portion of the United States’ $180 billion software industry: 90% of companies rely on third-party code for at least a portion (and sometimes the entirety) of their software projects. Approximately a third of the total revenue spent on the industry, $60 billion yearly, goes towards remedying defective software; in effect, bug squashing.
SourceNinja shared an infographic with us that details the total cost — in time, money, and resources — of bugs in open source code. Among other facts, like the impact of software defects on happiness and the frequency of security tests, the infographic reveals where troublesome bugs hide and how much they cost to repair. Coders, take note: squash those bugs before release and everyone will be better off.
Back in July of this year a crowd of coders, scientists and new media artists gathered in Berlin for the Open Science Workshop at OKCon. One of the projects to come out of this gathering was the...
Crowdsourcing’ describes how companies tap the collective capabilities of experts around the world, ranging from small businesses engaging overseas coders and designers through to multinationals...
In last week’s emerging crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms roundup, we wrote about GoFundMe, UFunded, and a pair of newly launched open innovation initiatives. This week, we highlight a few more platforms and projects that made recent headlines.
TopCoder's global community of developers compete in skill-based challenges representing every stage of the software development process. From discovery and specification, through development,...
Open innovation is the process by which organizations use both internal and external knowledge to drive and accelerate their internal innovation strategy in order to fulfill existing market needs...
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books (through...
Moderated by Mike Martoccia from Top Coder, the session had the following speakers: (from Left to the Right) Peter LaMotte from GeniusRocket Matt Mickiewicz from 99designs James Sherrett...
Creative crowdsourcing companies/platform/agencies need to look into whether creative individuals are really credible and reliable enough to deliver the best for their clients. Moderated by,...
Randy Corke (of Chaordix) pointed out that most of the time there's really no need for incentives or any financial rewards. For most people, they just would love to collaborate and be part of...
One of the panelists pointed out that brands don't actually care if the end results are crowdsourced. What they really care about are the results. Moderated by Mike Martoccia from Top...
Moderated by Mike Martoccia from Top Coder, this panel discussion involved the following panelists: (from Left to the Right) Peter LaMotte from GeniusRocket Matt Mickiewicz from 99designs...
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