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Use “crowdsourcing,” with no hyphen, for the practice of soliciting ideas or information from a large group or online community. The term was apparently coined by analogy to “outsourcing,” which...
Microsoft Research and Bing are sponsoring a contest called the Speller Challenge. The goal: create a spell checker that delivers "the most plausible spelling alternatives for each search...
Many big companies are adopting crowdsourcing when it come in creating advertisements for their products. This could threaten the traditional ad-agencies. This article provides some great examples.
On September 28, 2011, the city of Lisbon hosted the first international crowdfunding event in Portugal. To the 400 attendees and webcast viewers, the event introduced the concept of crowdfunding in its various forms, its potential, requirements and risks, focusing on two of the most successful cases in Europe, Symbid and Crowdcube.
Pedro Oliveira, professor in Catolica Lisbon and founder of PPL (Crowdfunding Portugal) kicked things off with a general intro to crowdfunding, followed by Korstiaan Zandvliet’s presentation of Symbid, a reference equity crowdfunding case from Holland. Symbid is an equity-based online investment platform that enables individuals to directly invest in start-ups or existing ventures in exchange for an equity stake in the company. With investments ranging from as little as €20 to as much as €2,500,000, just about anyone can invest through Symbid.
Think about your favorite blogs, whether they’re political, tech, or news blogs. If they publish frequently, chances are their posts have errors — something is misspelled, the grammar is wonky, or there’s a broken link. Even at blogs with attentive editors, mistakes slip through. Thing is, even if you’re not an out-and-out grammar Nazi, those irritating errors suck. They’re distracting. They make the blogger and the blog look bad, and they attract a flood of commenters who seem to thrive on pointing out errors, detracting from more substantial conversation.
Bloggers, rightfully, are more focused on generating and disseminating quality content than they are on catching every single trivial error. Blog readers want to read clear, error-free posts and the grand majority of them look to the comment section for something more meaningful than “You spelled ‘accidentally’ wrong. Again.” So what’s the solution?
The use of new technological tools will impact not only consumers’ own behavior but will also influence the buying behavior of other consumers as the use of social media continues to spread. Keys...
Mole Hunt and Mole Bridge are two crowdsouced games that promise to revolutionize the way in which collective problem solving can help to preserve a nation's history. They will also be perfect...
The virtual choir is represented by 12 countries, namely Austria, Argentina, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, The Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and United States of America....
Wordia allows users to search for the spelling, meaning and etymology of a word but what makes Wordia unique is the ability for users to explore the personal connotation of word through video. They...
I have been doing research on the economic impact of product reviews for a while. One thing that we have noticed is that the quality of the reviews can have an impact on product sales, independently of the polarity of the review. A review that is well-written tends to inspire confidence about the product, even if the review is negative. Typically such reviews are perceived as objective and thorough. So, if we have a high-quality, but negative, review this may serve as a guarantee that the negative aspects of the product are not that bad after all.African Origins contains information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic. The Project invites members of the public to assist in...
Groupon’s decision to award Clickworker.com a substantial contract to lead a large-scale, global translation and optimization project in a number of languages was a landmark award for the crowdsourcing industry. Clickworker’s win was a win for Clickworker and a win for the industry! Not only was this award significant in terms of it being an endorsement of crowdsourcing as a competitive delivery model for outsourced services by the global Internet coupon giant, but the fact that Groupon went public with the announcement was in itself momentous!
Last week I spoke with Clickworker’s CEO, Wolfgang Kitza, to not only congratulate him on his company’s win but to also find out more about Clickworker’s strategy and to learn more about what was needed to support the adoption of crowdsourcing by global brands.
At the same time, there are many signs that the Wikimedia Foundation is eager to make the editing process more user-friendly. It has been conducting usability studies to see where the bumps are....
Whether this army of letter-spotters can sort out the stories of Oxyrhynchus remains to be seen. But the Ancient Lives project already underlines the curious, cosmic relatedness of human lives...
Such a method would give Apple a way to differentiate its search results from Google Maps and other competing services, and just in case it needs to be spelled out, if the company is granted the...
The instructions are very specific. Zimmer offers an example of the chant he wants people to record. It’s actually the same mysterious chant that taunted Bat-fans over the summer, first on the...
The rebrand is the first step towards turning Thumb into a full-fledged social network built around opinions. Early next year,the company will add the ability for users to express their opinions...
A new website specializing in crowd funding for technical innovation or research is http://www.fundageek.com. This resource has been created especially to focus on helping people with technical...
According to Stephanie Leffler, CEO of CrowdSource, “We employ a recognition system modeled after offline career paths to motivate and reward our best writers. Those who compose quality work are...
Abair Leat is built with the Contain platform, which integrates its language features to make using Irish on the site easier. It includes integrated translation and spelling to allow users with all...
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