crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing leads to an ill-advised tattoo

Veer asked people to re-create its logo "using real-world objects or materials." One guy used his arm and a tattoo needle. (...)

Crowdsourcing leads to an ill-advised tattoo

Veer asked people to re-create its logo "using real-world objects or materials." One guy used his arm and a tattoo needle. (...)

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce

Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes...

"Crowdsourcing" and Democratic Filmmaking

"Crowdsourcing" is an innovative approach towards getting fresh ideas tested, funded, produced, and distributed into the market. CambrianHouse is the central hub on the net for crowdsourcing. Through...

JuicyCampus Founder Pleads “Can’t You Just Stop Being Mean To Each Other? Please?”

Well … it not so many words, of course. Matt Ivester, founder of JuicyCampus.com, the “gossip” site for College kids notoriously known for being an unrestrained melting pot of...

JuicyCampus Founder Pleads “Can’t You Just Stop Mean To Each Other? Please?”

Well … it not so many words, of course. Matt Ivester, founder of JuicyCampus.com, the “gossip” site for College kids notoriously known for being an unrestrained melting pot of...

Embedded World

I’ve been reading a lot this morning and finding some ideas congealing in my head. Writing about them seems to be coming a lot harder. As I struggle with it, here’s a little piece that...

Google Turns To Crowdsourcing With Google Maps

And in even more Google-ish kind of news (which is kind of stale  – but, still interesting to me), did you know that Google Maps is crowdsourcing its dirty work?  That is, to get pictures of...

Crowdsourcing and the Entertainment Industry: `Mining the masses for the next big thing'

My monthly Boston Globe column focuses on how entertainment players like MTV and Netflix are using crowdsourcing to develop new kinds of content and software applications. The gist of the...

The true power (and cost) of global collaboration.

A while ago, Matthew Stibbe talked about the real power thinking and acting collaboratively. Matthew explained the concept of crowdsourcing — which is basically just user-driven and...