Using Mobile Apps for Crowdsourcing
document ToolsCompanies who crowdsource typically use monetary incentives: they pay users for their services. A different type of crowdsourcing is social in nature: the data that you collect benefits you and...
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Companies who crowdsource typically use monetary incentives: they pay users for their services. A different type of crowdsourcing is social in nature: the data that you collect benefits you and...
The app presents users with the location and directions to the nearest police station plus local open police data and street-level crime data from the police API [application programming...
Listeners can vote “Rocks” or “Sucks” for the song that’s currently on the air. They can rocket up the tracks they want to hear and bomb the ones they don’t want to get on the air. They will also...
The LocalMind iPhone app and were immediately impressed at the ability to see local activity. Similar to Foursquare and Klout, users gain points for answering questions and increase their...
BargainMoose differentiates itself from other deal-finder websites by utilizing crowdsourcing, which enables consumers to determine how good the deals are. Because most people care what other...
CreekWatch is a new free app on iTunes.
TaskRabbit iPhone app is actually innovative, allowing anyone who needs something done fast to post a task quickly by either saying, typing or taking a picture of the task they want completed.
For The Gap and other retailers apparently to come, customizing music based on customers' taste is an easy way to keep shoppers happy, and possibly to make them shopping longer. Roqbot is...
The Gigwalk app does have some limitations. It’s available only for iPhones, and some gigs specifically require the iPhone 4 camera. Batteries run out after a couple of gigs and photo uploads can...
The Zipments mobile app is free and allows couriers to find new Zipments job postings, bid on them, track their existing jobs, receive routing information on any job in the marketplace and...
Users can open the Urbandig app and browse through place collections for SF, NY, LA and Vancouver, sifting for tours through categories like City Gems, Drink, Film, Food and Music, or by curator...
Here's how the photo going to be chosen; "Once 360,000 photos are submitted,one photo will be chosen to form the final mosaic image.Who will choose the photo? All of you, that’s...
Joan and Drew Norman, the owners of the farm, have gotten hooked on the iPhone and believe they can use it to make their work on the farm more efficient and better share and connect their...
Kickstarter released an iPhone and iPod touch app earlier today, its first foray into the mobile space. We take a look at the app and predict how it may affect campaign owners and their backers.
Kickstarter has finally released a mobile app for the iPhone and iPod, while NASA is taking a similar approach to get the crowd involved in designing an approach to help astronauts keep tracking of their nutritional and eating habits. Crowdsourcing.org editors Eric Blattberg, Anton Root and Eric Mack discuss both in final half of this two-part installment of the Crowded Room podcast.
Opinionaided, a free app for iPhone and iPod Touch, allows users to get advice and opinions on anything, in real-time. It's newly gathered funds will allow Opinionaided to further expand...
Shooger is creating an extensive community of users, that scout for deals and then shares them with the Shooger network, helping everyone to save time and money and gain that all important...
Young London-based startup Area Now displays all music events in a locality around you, which lets you “Likemark” an event and build up a diary of things to do. Your friends’ Likemarks then...
There's a brief tutorial when you open the BMW's Ultimate Drive app to explain the UI elements, how to find and add routes, along with a BMW-curated news feed and the ability to be...
Scoopshot™ is a photo service that brokers news photography between mobile Scoopshooters around the world and the international media through the Scoopshot Store.Their photos are newsworthy and...