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If you have an iPhone, The Weather Channel 4.0.0 app update includes a new “Social” tab at the bottom that provides access to weather related tweets from the surrounding area. The Weather...
For the ‘Create my Tweet’ campaign, devised by social media agency Jam, Twitter users can suggest ideas for artworks, which are then drawn using the phone’s design apps. This is another creative...
“People can preview articles from news sources like The New York Times, see images from websites like WWE and play dynamic content from broadcasters like BET,” Twitter’s Robert Weeks said....
SkyCube is one of many projects trying to get earthly beings into the unknown. Another Kickstarter project is working to send investors’ science experiments aboard a spacecraft, in an effort to...
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Social-savvy employees post queries and comments to internal conversation threads and coworkers offer feedback, crowdsourcing solutions. Content can be shared and searched, so the same issues don’t...
It’s hard to take the message seriously when the messenger is wanted for questioning and hiding out in an embassy. It’s even more difficult when a book containing warnings about surveillance is...
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I was recently asked to give my assessment of the newly-released “#CROWDSOURCING Tweet”. The project is a clever collection of the best tweets about crowdsourcing. Everything from highly-academic observations to harsh scrutiny about the practice to historical citations of crowdsourcing’s beginnings. Written by two serial book authors who have utilized crowdsourcing before in their many endeavors, Kiruba Shankar and Mitchell Levy are the perfect pair to curate this discussion. Since my response to their request quickly turned into a rave review, I wanted to share some of the best bits I read with you all.
Some examples in this CrowdsourcingTweet compilation are as follows: The collective knowledge of the audience is always higher than that of any one speaker. Microfinancing is a great...
Twitter has not yet responded to the lawsuit against it, but it is quite possible that the company will take this opportunity to implement its newly-announced country-by-country policy that enables...
In December, Euan Adie and Martin Fenner started the CrowdoMeter project, an analysis of the semantic content of tweets linking to scholarly papers. Because classifying almost 500 tweets is a lot...
The digital volunteers will also provide a crucial resource to the Red Cross: Crowdsourcing. Volunteers will be expected to verify and curate data for the Digital Operations Center, and to offer...
Anthony Tang and Sebastian Boring of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, used Twitter to crowdsource highlights from American football games. Their system, called #EpicPlay, gauges...
A team from the Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology created Twitcident, a website and a framework for crowdsourcing information about various crises. While the algorithm used to follow...
Fittingly, the announcement was made via a post on the Alpha version of the new service, which has been open to a set of early backers and others for the past several days. Adding an App.net...
The centerpiece of Rally St. Louis is a community-focused Web site, rallystl.org, that serves as a crowdsourcing platform to submit ideas as well as a crowdfunding platform to raise the money to...
Preceding the space, HUB Dubai's launch today marked the start of operational activity through its free pilot of HUBnet, an exclusive HUB-only online global collaboration platform where HUB...
Social media showed its political potential during the Arab Spring, allowing “crowdsourcing” and the coordination of large-scale protests. Street activists scheduled demonstrations through mass...
The demand for sharing is indeed increasing as more and more people are getting interested in sharing almost anything they want (even medical data itself). But medical data sharing that exists in...
TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making...
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.
