Using Flickr to Crowdsource Market Research
document Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgeTry using Flickr to gather primary market research. It’s fast, free and extremely informative.
Archenette EvangelioJan 25, 2011 07:54 am GMT2481 views
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Try using Flickr to gather primary market research. It’s fast, free and extremely informative.
According to a spokesperson, the People’s Royal Wedding Album is designed to be a counterpart to the official royal album, capturing “the people’s view” of the Royal Wedding. All are welcome to...
The photo, taken by Pete Souza — the White House’s talented official photographer, was viewed 390,000 times on Flickr by 3:30 that afternoon. The number reached 600,000 pageviews by 5 p.m. And 25...
Flickr won’t be dropping its work with the Open Street Map (OSM) community – it will continue to reel in OSM map tiles for areas where full commercial map coverage isn’t available. “One...
The new technique—developed by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and ETH Zurich—streamlines a complex process that previously required clusters of dozens of computers....
People are using pictures of whales, particularly pictures of their tails which have unique markings that can be used to identify individual whales, combined with the date and location information...
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has posted to Flickr the photos of 20 individuals that have collectively defrauded the UK government of £765 million ($1.2 billion), BBC reports. If you’ve got a...
This paper opened by setting out a number of examples of the uses of vernacular geography in examples of putative information systems, and argued that such geographies were not often captured by...
This incident points to the power of image hosting services as image crowdsourcing. Guek took the photo in Malaysia, but didn't have the expertise to identify it as a new species. Winterton...
If you weren’t convinced before that almost anything can be accomplished through crowdsourcing, this should more or less do it for you: finding an image on Flickr, a whale scientist was able to...
Internet spawned ventures like Flickr and iStockphoto providing stock photography at a fraction of the price of professional stock photography changed the paradigm as photo stock became available and affordable to the masses. So fundamental was the change that rather than be cannibalized, Getty Images, “the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content”, cannibalized the cannibal, acquiring iStockphoto in February 2006.
Image search has been tough for search engines. They can't easily tell what an image is about, since there's no good way to "see" the images and categorize them. Some...
The Library of Congress is one organization that's used Flickr effectively for historic photos. In fact, it was one of the first -- and most successful -- social media partnerships by a U.S....
A scientist discovered a new species of insect while browsing bug photos on Flickr.
Hock Ping Guek is a professional photographer and citizen scientist who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and whose online nom de plume is Kurt Orionmystery. He photographed a particularly attractive...
This is classic “crowdsourcing”, where the more people you have weighing in on any specific data point raises the probability of the finding the right answer.
Recently launched in December 15th, Cloud Shopper allows you to obtain suggestions from your Facebook friends in relation to making a purchasing decision. This site crowdsources your Facebook...
Esri came up with an addictive mashup of YouTube videos, Flickr photos, and tweets from the front lines of the disaster. Pinpoint where each quake and aftershock struck, then see the damage from...
The EPA is calling on the masses to post their best photographs on Flickr. In the first week, about 100 images were posted to a special group page set up through the photo sharing network. The...
The NPG, having noted that many of Hoppé's locations remain familiar today – London Zoo, Hyde Park, the Savoy Hotel – invited the public to respond to Hoppé's street scenes with images of...
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.
