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Is equity crowdfunding a scandal waiting to happen? Experts warn lack of regulation leaves door open to rogue firms
article Crowdfunding

There are also concerns that firms that have benefited from equity crowdfunding could struggle to access funding elsewhere in the future, because rather than having to get two investors to agree to...

Claire MackayJun 19, 2013 08:03 am GMT150 views
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Is equity crowdfunding a scandal waiting to happen? Experts warn lack of regulation leaves door open to rogue firms
NASA Is Clueless Needs Help Of CITIZENS To Track KILLER Asteroids
article Distributed Knowledge

If you decide to join, you would be part of a group of between 50 and 100 amateur astronomers. These astronomers conduct light-curve analysis on space rocks. (This involves making repeated images...

Claire MackayJun 19, 2013 12:55 am GMT199 views
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NASA Is Clueless Needs Help Of CITIZENS To Track KILLER Asteroids
Scientists turn to the streets for help in monitoring waterways
article Distributed Knowledge, Tools

CrowdHydrology was started in 2011 by Chris Lowry, PhD, a University at Buffalo assistant professor of geology. He came up with the idea after reading about a California researcher who used...

Claire MackayJun 18, 2013 05:14 am GMT203 views
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Scientists turn to the streets for help in monitoring waterways
Vegetables People Hate According to Ranker.com
document Distributed Knowledge

Ranker.com, a crowdsourcing website that relies on “the wisdom of crowds,” has collected the aggregated opinion of over 1,500 voters on the list of “Vegetables I Won’t Eat.” Voters are able to vote...

Claire MackayJun 15, 2013 02:54 am GMT284 views
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Vegetables People Hate According to Ranker.com
Heineken Is Crowdsourcing Your Best Worst #DadJokes
article Distributed Knowledge

Heineken is flipping the idea of the dad joke around, and celebrating it for Father’s Day. Sure, it can be embarrassing when your father introduces himself to the waitress and says "Hi, I’ll...

Claire MackayJun 14, 2013 05:25 am GMT167 views
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Heineken Is Crowdsourcing Your Best Worst #DadJokes
The $34 Billion Multilingual Business Conversation
article Distributed Knowledge

Cloudwords' technology is also among the first to facilitate translation crowdsourcing, or tapping a multilingual group to turn work around more quickly and cheaply than one person could....

Claire MackayJun 13, 2013 05:08 am GMT146 views
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The $34 Billion Multilingual Business Conversation
Unilever taps into creative crowdsourcing to up marketing ante
article Crowd Creativity

Unilever has struck a partnership with crowdsourcing portal, eYeka, to tap into its global creative community to up the ante across its marketing and communication activities. The partnership...

Claire MackayJun 13, 2013 01:05 am GMT289 views
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Unilever taps into creative crowdsourcing to up marketing ante
A Year Later, the Missed Opportunity of the JOBS Act
article Crowdfunding

This will not happen now. The passage of the JOBS Act sucked any remaining will out of Congress to legislate innovatively. The S.E.C. is engaged in a rear-guard action to minimize the harm from...

Claire MackayJun 12, 2013 08:24 am GMT159 views
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A Year Later, the Missed Opportunity of the JOBS Act
Around the world in 7 startups: travelling ventures with a twist
article Crowdfunding, Tools

Triip’s crowdsourcing philosophy stretches further than it’s financing– the company’s mainly trying to encourage and preserve the local culture as well as the tourism industry. The site wants to...

Claire MackayJun 11, 2013 12:57 pm GMT194 views
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Around the world in 7 startups: travelling ventures with a twist
Call-filtering App WhosCall Now Available To Help iPhone Users Avoid Spam Calls
article Distributed Knowledge

“Crowdsourcing has become the major way we get malicious numbers for our blacklist database,” says Jeff Kuo, the CEO and co-founder of Gogolook. SOURCE LINK to the full article:...

Claire MackayJun 08, 2013 01:26 am GMT338 views
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Call-filtering App WhosCall Now Available To Help iPhone Users Avoid Spam Calls
Crowdcube announces 500% increase in funding for UK start-ups
article Crowdfunding

The world’s first equity-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, has announced a significant increase of 500% in the amount of capital raised this year for start-ups on its site compared to 2012....

Claire MackayJun 07, 2013 01:00 pm GMT469 views
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Crowdcube announces 500% increase in funding for UK start-ups
CFI CrowdFunding Incubator Takes CrowdFunding “Condo”
document Crowdfunding

CrowdFunding Incubator LLC has devised a novel plan toward creating the very first cooperative community of “licensee/managers” each of whom will become the holder of a territorial fiefdom within...

Claire MackayJun 07, 2013 07:45 am GMT491 views
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CFI CrowdFunding Incubator Takes CrowdFunding “Condo”
Why citizen scientists help and how to keep them hooked
article Distributed Knowledge

Such online “crowdsourcing” to facilitate research has been around for a while. The Galaxy Zoo project, for example, has been drawing on the wisdom of the crowd to map outer space since 2007,...

Claire MackayJun 06, 2013 05:07 am GMT371 views
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Why citizen scientists help and how to keep them hooked
Online Decor Magazine Covet Garden Launches IndieGoGo Campaign to Produce Special Print Edition
document Crowdfunding

The Covet Garden production trio would like to raise $18,000 to help cover these necessary expenses. "This is not the full project cost," says Riche. "We hope to make more money (and...

Claire MackayJun 05, 2013 12:47 pm GMT512 views
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Online Decor Magazine Covet Garden Launches IndieGoGo Campaign to Produce Special Print Edition
“There Was Magic” on Kickstarter
document Crowdfunding

A new documentary feature film directed by Afonso Salcedo which launched this past Monday morning in a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter. It reached 20% of the fundraising goal in less than 24...

Claire MackayJun 05, 2013 01:39 am GMT455 views
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“There Was Magic” on Kickstarter
Translia.com Offers Unique Model of Quality Translation Services
document Tools

Translia has been trusted by thousands of clients to translate documents critical to their business success. It is a member of the Globalization and Localization Association and also a member of...

Claire MackayJun 04, 2013 09:27 am GMT405 views
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Translia.com Offers Unique Model of Quality Translation Services
Product Funder uses crowdsourcing to help develop new consumer products
article Crowdfunding

Product Funder can also be called “accountable crowd funding.” With consumer products, there are more steps to the process than other traditionally crowdfunded projects, such as artistic works...

Claire MackayJun 01, 2013 08:41 am GMT795 views
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Product Funder uses crowdsourcing to help develop new consumer products
The NRA’s Funding Ban On Gun Violence Projects Is Forcing This Researcher To Crowdsource
article Distributed Knowledge

Unable to find any traditional sources of funding, Bisakha Sen turned to Microryza, an online funding site similar to Kickstarter. Though the Professor estimated the study would cost $25,000 to...

Claire MackayJun 01, 2013 04:55 am GMT515 views
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The NRA’s Funding Ban On Gun Violence Projects Is Forcing This Researcher To Crowdsource
Making the World Work
article Cloud Labor

Routine tasks are quickly being automated by algorithms or offloaded to outsourcing and crowdsourcing companies, like my company TaskUs. The net effect is tighter core organizations, with jobs...

Claire MackayJun 01, 2013 01:10 am GMT535 views
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Making the World Work
Phillips and IKEA crowdsource ‘repurposed’ cleantech solutions for the home
article Open Innovation

Global brands Phillips and IKEA have got behind a new crowdsourcing initiative that is looking for ways to cut the carbon consumed in our homes by "repurposing" existing technologies for...

Claire MackayMay 30, 2013 01:19 pm GMT371 views
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Phillips and IKEA crowdsource ‘repurposed’ cleantech solutions for the home
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