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article Distributed KnowledgeMY World, the United Nations global survey for a better world (www.myworld2015.org) is a groundbreaking initiative inviting citizens to virtually take their seat at the UN and participate in the...
article CrowdfundingThe website, whose staff has seen the video, is using crowdsourcing to raise the money. As of 3 pm Toronto time on Saturday, it had $54,000 of the video’s $200K asking price.
They’re using...
article Distributed KnowledgeAs many of us in the tech blogosphere associate crowdsourcing with dubious Kickstarter projects, and Google Maps with nights out on the town, Luo’s story is a potent reminder that the cool gadgets...
document ToolsTo showcase the power of its platform, EdgeSpring has also developed CrunchEdge, a playground to explore Crunchbase, a crowdsourced data set of venture investments and startup company information....
article Distributed KnowledgeDevicescape’s whole business model is designed around the idea of providing cheap ubiquitous Wi-Fi to carriers. Through crowdsourcing, it has identified and mapped 12 million open access points...
article Distributed KnowledgeAnother focus for the team is getting more developers involved – both for crowdsourcing data and for developing better reef-recognition algorithms. The existing algorithms can only interpret images...
article Distributed KnowledgeThere is some irony involved when crowdsourcing for situational awareness involves gathering data directly from those being watched.
Take Occupy D.C., part of the Occupy movement, an...
article Open Innovation, ToolsCitizen Power, a German team, is building a peer-to-peer online social platform for crowdsourcing urban solar installations.
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document Crowdfunding, Tools"FaithLauncher is the best choice in crowdfunding for Christians. Unlike other crowdfunding sites, FaithLauncher is aligned with Biblical values and permits all types of projects relevant to...
article Distributed KnowledgeSideCar has been pushing the idea of “ride matching,” mainly due to the “destination” aspect of its app. Unlike Lyft and Uber, it requires passengers to enter not only where they’re originating...
article Open Innovation Fab announced another initiative for expanding its offerings: a crowdsourced competition, calling for designers around the world to submit their ideas for the company’s next big product. Now,...
document Distributed KnowledgeHistoWiki.com also has a novel inducement for people who help "crowdsource" a timeline. Visitors can log in, and suggest additions to any timeline. Any visitor whose relevant data point...
document Distributed KnowledgeWhen it comes to bonding with mom, nothing beats shopping, Gen Z girls say. With over 3,000 total responses, “shopping til they drop” was their number one activity with 52% of the vote, followed by...
article Distributed KnowledgeThere is, of course, a romantic appeal to the idea of open, evolving public data venues and information crowdsourcing. But in the rush to share information, the slow, tedious process of...
article Distributed KnowledgeBlueBee really shines when the tag and the smartphone are miles apart, which activates the crowdsourcing feature to find the lost item. Because every BlueBee owner is automatically part of the Blue...
article Distributed Knowledge, ToolsЗа честни избори (“For Fair Elections”; bg] is an Ushahidi-based crowdmapping platform, which will help gather reports of violations (text and photos submitted via Facebook, Twitter and email)....
document CrowdfundingCoral ecosystems support around 500,000,000 people, but are severely threatened; the Coralbots team aim to revolutionize how such threats are tackled. Their Kickstarter campaign (closing May 26th)...
document Distributed Knowledge, ToolsThe underlying concepts adopted by uGiftIdeas.com – collaborative filtering and crowdsourcing - are similar to other social recommendation sites, such as Yelp for restaurant recommendations,...
article Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgeAnd in response – sort of – crowdsourcing outfit Talenthouse (2 million members around the globe and counting) has launched a new online platform together with Nokia, adidas and vitaminwater which...
article Crowdfunding“While most entrepreneurs think of crowdfunding with dollar signs in their eyes, a smarter way is to look at the crowd is to envision them as future customers or investors ready to help in the...