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s like Hadoop. All of these are mature, high capable, and new ways of tackling the enormous challenges that large-scale co

business for the economic

While some might look at the social aspects of things like Web 2.0 as marginal subjects when things get tough, nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to the deeper implications of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Many of the more transformational aspects of the 2.0 era now have extensive groundwork laid for them, are available in genuinely enterprise-ready solutions/pilots, and many have just been waiting for the right situation; the driving need for businesses to change and transform in the face of radically different business conditions.

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Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered,"Am I the only one?" Herdict Web aggregates reports of inaccessible sites, allowing users to compare data to see if inaccessibility is a shared problem. By crowdsourcing data from around the world, we can document accessibility for any web site, anywhere.

检测一个网站是否可以访问的服务

"Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered,"Am I the only one?" Herdict Web aggregates reports of inaccessible sites, allowing users to compare data to see if inaccessibility is a shared problem. By crowdsourcing data from around the world, we can document accessibility for any web site, anywhere."

Imagine if the White House was run democratically where everything was voted on by the public. Well, this site tries to simulate just that.

An interesting exercise in the effect of Digg and Democracy

LeadVine finds you new qualified sales leads and new customers to increase your sales and revenue. We crowdsource lead generation by having the community find you sales leads.

LeadVine is where you post sales leads you are searching for, list a referral fee, and have the community act as your sales force. * Increase sales * Outsource your sales process * Lower marketing, advertising, and recruiting costs * Did we mention all of this is free? Make money by giving referrals Do you come across information that is not valuable to you but valuable to someone else? Get paid for information that is at your finger tips. * Earn easy money * Leverage your existing network to help companies increase sales * Make money for information you have at your fingertips * Spend a minimal amount of time earning extra cash

^^

I wonder if we missed the boat fighting it out over our similar ideas

social question answering, where you trade answering questions for answers to questions

good idear... then store that time-stamped content and make it searchable by anyone ... hate that term "crowdsourcing," must be a more elegant way to say this

A strange, but fascinating service. Kind of reminds me of the "Usenet Oracle":Wikipedia:The_Internet_Oracle, but over "IM":IM and without all the insane stories.

usage of crowdsourcing wiki

Really cool, but undeniably creepy at the same time... >>Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.<<

'over 2000 voices recorded via the Internet, assembled to sing Daisy Bell'

כמה שזה יפה, אלוהים

Very cool experiment involving the song "Daisy Bell", Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and 2000 human voices.

over 2.000 human voices recorded via the internet, assembled to sing Daisy Bell.

i suspect this'll be pretty big

From Angus

Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it.

Over beslissingen en advies. Van een van de oprichters van Flickr. Nog niet kunnen uittesten, is nog in beta stadium, alleen op uitnodiging. Kan interessant zijn.

ask an expert

Quite an interesting idea. (via sai)

Peer 2 peer e-learning

Small, good intentions can bring about great leaps.

Sort of quest/points/prestige based site for encouraging and coordinating social activism. Seems to have no ethos except facilitating action (and making a profit).

ms increasingly obvious that it will. Aided by a new generation of sophisticated startups, ever cheaper creative tools and

This several weeks old, but still of interest. If you're a designer or design you student you should definitely read it.

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something for nothing?

In addition to helping you climb the decision tree, Hunch asks you a bunch of questions about yourself to find out more about what you're like and what you like. Hunch creates a kind of "taste profile" of you and people like you, which combine with topic-specific questions to deliver a hunch just for you.

Caterina.net: Hunch!

A site that makes decisions for you.

Look. Decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly. What should I be for Halloween? Do I need a Porsche? Does my hipster facial hair make me look stupid? Is Phoenix a good place to retire? Whom should I vote for? What toe ring should I buy?

Let me know if you have no interest in the things I randomly send you - this made me think of your union rant plus your blog about shoes on wires :)

Prior to DIYcity, Geraci co-founded the hyperlocal news network Outside.in.

know your LA hoods

Mapping LAs neighborhoods

The human face of "slave" labor? in any event an amazing idea. http://adjix.com/4g2q [from http://twitter.com/DrIanFenwick/statuses/1215164589]

Actual users of Amazon's Mechanical Turk service revealed. Seems to contradict (though in a non-scientific way) the myth of the MT sweatshop. These are not third-world workers.

rate products; be a focus group;get paid (not much)

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Many to many conversation. Social collaboration. Crowdourcing

Join us in digging through the documents of MPs' expenses to identify individual claims, or documents that you think merit further investigation. You can work through your own MP's expenses, or just hit the button below to start reviewing.

Investigate your MP's expenses Join us in digging through the documents of MPs' expenses to identify individual claims, or documents that you think merit further investigation. You can work through your own MP's expenses, or just hit the button below to start reviewing. (Update, Fri pm: we now have a virtually complete set of expenses documents so you should be able to find your MP's)

We hope that many hands can make light work of the thousands of documents released by Parliament in relation to MPs’ expenses. We, and others - perhaps you? - are using these tools to review each document, decide whether it contains interesting information, and extract the key facts.

Nice crowdsourcing

Guardian crowd sourcing investigative journalism

Join us in digging through the 700,000 documents of MPs' expenses to identify individual claims, or documents that you think merit further investigation. You can work through your own MP's expenses, or just hit the button below to start reviewing. (Update, Thurs evening: More added now and more coming all the time. Check back if you haven't found your MP yet) Already created an account? Log in here.

Brilliant! Help the Guardian find suspicious MP expenses claims that can be flagged to the authorities! Aaaah, the wonders of the internet!

Dresden Dolls - "why not tell people and do this in a warehouse instead of a hotel lobby or a blank studio? so i did. it cost me almost nothing. the fans were psyched." - prior exposure note the comments

Musicians making money really cool site

Crowdfunding, or getting many people to donate small amounts of cash to fund a project, startup, or service, is nothing new. Think public radio or television pledge drives. Think political campaigns.

Wonderful stuff - constructing 3D models of Rome based on Flickr photos alone, with no geodata

Our aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city, say Rome, from Flickr.com. After downloading, it matches these images to find common points and uses this information to compute the three dimensional structure of the city

Wow!

Cool project at the Univeresity of Washington: "Our aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city, say Rome, from Flickr.com. After downloading, it matches these images to find common points and uses this information to compute the three dimensional structure of the city and the pose of the cameras that captured these images."

The technical geekery required to make this happen is just too damn cool.

really nice open learning platform. needs paypal or credit card billing to really go anywhere though, methinks.

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Full-screen I #justbought 46" longboard http://jb.ly/bnzx from www.stubbiesbaynation.com in Dallas US

Ferramenta usando Google Maps para shopping local

Collective Buying Power - Daily Deals

Instead of just a "Citation Needed", we'll now have various shades to give us hints as to the reliability of information.

Wired.com

Starting this fall, you’ll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called “WikiTrust” will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page. More than 60 million people visit the free, open-access encyclopedia each month, searching for knowledge on 12 million pages in 260 languages. But despite its popularity, Wikipedia has long suffered criticism from those who say it’s not reliable. Because anyone with an internet connection can contribute, the site is subject to vandalism, bias and misinformation. And edits are anonymous, so there’s no easy way to separate credible information from fake content created by vandals.

This idea (and the tool for its implementation) has been around for a while. Now it seems that wikipedia is going to implement it. Interesting debate here about the nature of truth: truth by consensus, or, the loudest voices win. Has it ever been any other way? Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fwiredscience%2F2009%2F08%2Fwikitrust

Id•this es una web donde nos ayudan a identificar elementos que aparezcan en alguna foto, o simplemente la foto completa. Al subir la imagen podemos añadir información, tiempo de permanencia de la foto (entre 1 hora y 30 días), elegir la categoría...

Crowd-sources image identificaiton.

id•this is human powered identification of anything or anyone. Just snap a photo of something you'd like identified and then send it to be identified.

"Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it."

Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it.

Things the Daily Mail says cause cancer - via Adam Cherry

Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it

Small Groups, Big Impact Attempts to Address the Issue

A small crowd is still a crowd.

The findings showed that a small group of users accounted for a large number of ratings. In other words, as many have already begun to suspect, small but powerful groups can easily distort what the "crowd" really thinks, leading online reviews to often end up appearing extremely positive or extremely negative.

Yet another abstraction layer between you and people working for you. Managed crowdsourcing via outlets like MechanicalTurk

Using data on movie-rating patterns, new Wharton research challenges current thinking on the Long Tail effect

Using data on movie-rating patterns, new Wharton research challenges current thinking on the Long Tail effect ...

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Controversy about the long tail theory

Knowledge@Wharton

One side effect of $1mil Netflix prize was the treasure of data that was made public. Researches at Wharton use it to find out how valid is the Long Tail theory.

CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement tool. CitySourced provides a free, simple, and intuitive tool empowering citizens to identify civil issues (potholes, graffiti, trash, snow removal, etc.) and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save money and improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. Our platform is called CitySourced, as it empowers everyday citizens to use their smart phones to make their cities a better place. CitySourced is powered by FreedomSpeaks, the leader in interactive civic engagement

a real time mobile civic engagement tool

Tweet with the hashtag #BlameDrewsCancer and Blame Drew's Cancer for anything and everything you want. $1 goes to charity for every person who participates.

On May 20th, 2009, Drew Olanoff was diagnosed with cancer. Ever since that day, Drew has blamed everything on his cancer. Losing his keys, misplacing his wallet, Twitter being slow, the Phillies losing, etc. Why? Because you have to beat up on Cancer to win… and you can help out. Blame Drew's Cancer for anything you want by tweeting with the hashtag #BlameDrewsCancer and it'll come here. When Drew beats Cancer we hope to have sponsors that will donate a dollar for every participant to our partner, LIVESTRONG.

"What really happens in crowdsourcing as it is practiced in wide variety of contexts, from Wikipedia to open source to scientific research, is that a problem is broadcast to a large number of people with varying forms of expertise. Then individuals motivated by obsession, competition, money or all three apply their individual talent to creating a solution."

Does crowdsourcing exist as it is popularly conceived? Yes, it does, but it doesn't have anything to do with innovation. Jigsaw, the community-created database of 16 million business contacts, is crowdsourcing. Tens of thousands of people have added business contacts to Jigsaw's database so they can earn points and get access to business contacts entered by others. Jigsaw sells this data to companies, generating millions in revenue. Jigsaw is the only true crowdsourced business I know of. The other businesses mentioned in the crowdsourcing category, Innocentive, Threadless, Spreadshirt, iStockPhoto, are really versions of Wikipedia, that is, aggregations of the inventions of individual virtuosos. Other large projects, like Linux, Apache ( APA - news - people ) and GIMP, are virtuoso creations around which consortiums of experts have gathered.

What really happens in crowdsourcing as it is practiced in wide variety of contexts, from Wikipedia to open source to scientific research, is that a problem is broadcast to a large number of people with varying forms of expertise. Then individuals motivated by obsession, competition, money or all three apply their individual talent to creating a solution.

great article that most crowdsourcing is about broadcasting to people with training. however, this is challenged by pitting 100 semitrained folk against individual virtuosos. the 100 semitrained folk win.

"... in the popular press, and in the minds of millions of people, the word crowdsourcing has created an illusion that there is a crowd that solves problems better than individuals. ... There is no crowd in crowdsourcing. There are only virtuosos, usually uniquely talented, highly trained people who have worked for decades in a field. Frequently, these innovators have been funded through failure after failure. From their fervent brains spring new ideas. The crowd has nothing to do with it. The crowd solves nothing, creates nothing. What really happens in crowdsourcing ... is that a problem is broadcast to a large number of people with varying forms of expertise. Then individuals motivated by obsession, competition, money or all three apply their individual talent to creating a solution." Author: Dan Woods, Forbes.com, Sept. 29, 2009.

Interesting way to collect user feedback

Vote for new features to Google products

You decide what's important for Google products: Tell us what you think about your favorite Google products. Big ideas or small thoughts, we want to know! # Everyone's voice is heard The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate. # See what others are saying Look at the "What's Hot" and "Recent Ideas" at the top of each topic to see what other users are saying and voting on right now. Agree with these ideas? Vote them up. Disagree? Vote them down.

Tú decides como evolucionan los productos de Google "Google Product Ideas" http://j.mp/17hGx0

Dê sugestões de novos produtos, e vote no seu favorito.

The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees. When I talked to him afterwards, Berry said the system was created inhouse, but he wouldn’t disclose much else about how or how often it’s done. He did say Huffington Post editors have found that placing the author’s name above a headline almost always leads to more clicks than omitting it.

From direct mail to web design, A/B testing is considered a gold standard of user research: Show one version to half your audience and another version to

So here’s something devilishly brilliant: The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees.

he Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees.

Social media advertising

5 Ways to Attract and #Empower Your #Crowd http://ow.ly/oaRC [from http://twitter.com/schulezweinull/statuses/3819609045]

one of the things up for grabs in the current news environment is the nature of authority. In particular, I noted that people trust new classes of aggregators and filters, whether Google or Twitter or Wikipedia (in its ‘breaking news’ mode.). Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.”

Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.” This model of authority differs from personal or institutional authority, and has, I think, three critical characteristics.

We were talking about authority and trust the other day in class after Angela's presentation on medical diagnoses - here's a new post from Clay Shirky on the topic - worth reading.

Invité à réagir à l'évolution des médias, Clay Shirky explique que la transformation majeure dans l'environnement de l'information repose sur la nature de l'autorité. En quelques années, par l'intermédiaire de nouveaux outils de filtrage et d'agrégation, nos autorités ont changé. Et de définir l'autorité algorithmique nouvelle par trois caractéristiques : il utilise des sources multiples et les combine pour les classer ; ces résultats étant suffisamment bons, les gens lui font confiance ; enfin, les gens se rendent compte que nombreux sont ceux qui font confiance à ces résultats ce qui les aide à adopter ces nouvelles autorités (comme Wikipédia).

digital

Easy for the average citizen to use and hard for any central authority to control, Twitter is practically ideal for a mass protest movement. But its strengths are also its weaknesses

Time article about the coverage of the 2009 Iranian election on Twitter.

for utk essay!

Easy for the average citizen to use and hard for any central authority to control, Twitter is practically ideal for a mass protest movement. But its strengths are also its weaknesses

Elechanical turk de la transpatencia

US Transparency crowd sourcing website

Coordinates distributed digitization of government data as well as things like finding state officials on Twitter. Great example of both microvolunteering and the ecosystem needed for creating an effective evaluatory section of the government cycle.

Transparency Corps is the Sunlight Foundation's answer to the question, "How can I help?". There are many big problems that we can solve with technology, but we can't solve them all. For many of the projects that make government transparency a reality, human eyes and analysis are required. With Transparency Corps, we break those tasks down into short, small actions that make a BIG difference.

awesome! Sunlight's http://transparencycorps.org project now asks for help crowdsourcing national directory of state officials on Twitte ... [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/3058548525]

There are many big problems that we can solve with technology, but we can't solve them all. For many of the projects that make government transparency a reality, human eyes and analysis are required. With Transparency Corps, we break those tasks down into short, small actions that make a BIG difference. Join the Corps, and let's get started!

mechanical turk for translation

MyGengo offers human translation services between English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Russian. And it does work much like Amazon’s crowdsourced marketplace: The site’s 600 “certified” translators wait for a customer to upload a document or text and take care of those jobs they can deal with. Customers can choose between three quality and pricing levels and usually get the translations back within a few hours, saving up to 70% in costs when compared to professional translators.

spot.us experiment to crowd-source journalism

These days, everywhere you look it seems that some newspaper is closing its doors, stopping its presses, or maybe just going online-only. This sea of change is being heralded by some as the "death of journalism," a transformation that has been brought about thanks to the web. But is the web really killing journalism? Or, is it allowing an entirely new type of journalism to emerge?

Spot.us is a non-profit startup which distributes the cost of hiring a journalist across a community of people. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Spot.us has already funded stories where journalists have investigated things like the local police department, poverty issues, and city budgetary issues.

Spot.us, SF. crowd-funded journalism. Local stories/issues. Story funded; if publ rts sold will reimburse donors; if not, story released under CC for anyone to republ. Knight Fndtn Grant; also ask cmmty to donate additional $2/partic story. Idea brrwd from Kiva.org micro-financing site: p2p micro-lending. Non-prof: low ovrhds. Aim for (local) journalism to survive death of its institutions. Open-src. Hoping to spread to other locs. Anyone can create pitch: civic stories (politics, edu, enviro etc).

It’s tough enough for a small business. What if you’re #2 on Business Week’s best global brands list, with nearly 400,000 employees across 170 countries? At IBM, it’s about losing control.

Good post on LOSING CONTROL in #socmedia "How IBM Uses Social Media to Spur Employee Innovation | Social Media Examiner" http://j.mp/bqP38E

A case study on IBM's decentralized social media program which relies on crowd-sourcing and is driving unprecedented collaboration and innovation.

How the Ecocn.org folks work

A description of a group of volunteers translating every article in the weekly Economist into Chinese.

"a group of dedicated fans of The Economist newsmagazine are translating each weekly issue cover-to-cover, splitting up the work among a team of volunteers, and redistributing the finished translations as complete PDFs for a Chinese audience. "

They call themselves The Eco Team, a group of about 240 passionate Economist fans led by a 39-year-old insurance broker named Shi Yi.

The list of sensitive subjects includes China-Taiwan's political relationship, Tibet, Falun Gong, the Tiananmen Square protests, the Cultural Revolution, discussions of freedom of the press or freedom of religion, and any discussion of the establishment of a new Chinese political party.

"Okay, I'm hanging up now."

La réalité augmenté en live depuis la carte, ça arrache quand on monte au ciel. Enjoy.

Microsoft Bingmap "Photosynth"

TED Talks In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft.

Great new features on the Bing Maps tool: http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html #ted [from http://twitter.com/MikevHoenselaar/statuses/9132225450]

A Wordy editor will check your text for grammar, spelling, punctuation and structure. Wordy has editors that specialise in a wide range of subjects, which ensures your text will be of the very highest quality.

danish company that does editing with a very quick turnaround

Wordy is the fastest, most reliable way of adding professional copy-editing to your writing process

The place for people to share things they're willing to do for $5 Buy. Sell. Have fun.

Fiverr is a place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5: Funny and Bizarre, Social Marketing, Graphics, Advertising, Technology, Business, Programming and more!

Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.

April 8, 2009.

Collaboration (conversation) as a mechanism for accelerating growth along the 'experience curve'

Network effects = the value of a node in a network rises exponentially as more nodes are added to it. These are called network effects

rapid leaps in performance improvement arise as participants get better faster by working with others. These leaps in performance describe the shape and power of the collaboration curve, a new force in our professional and personal lives that turns the experience curve on its side, and explains why the whole of us, working, playing, and, learning together, can often be greater than the sum of our parts.

Collaboration curves. And WoW.

Collaboration curves hold the potential to mobilize larger and more diverse groups of participants to innovate and create new value. In so doing they may also reverse the diminishing returns dynamics of the experience curve and deliver increasing returns to performance instead. The evidence for the collaboration curve is, as yet, mostly anecdotal.

via http://www.informl.com/2009/04/08/climbing-the-collaboration-curve/

A little project by Ze Frank with vocal contributions from many others.

When getting to veterinary school is too overwhelming a task, go here.

A fan sent zefrank (one of my all-time favorites) an email explaining how stressed out and overwhelmed she was. He wrote her a song and had other fans sings the chorus. This is the story and the final song. Try not to cry. This guy is tremendous.

ask online folks to help them finish "mission impossible" in 48hr !!! amazing ideas love it!!!

If you're not following 48hrmag, you should be. Here's how to buy issue zero: http://48hrmag.com/ – Dave Coustan (extraface) http://twitter.com/extraface/statuses/13811482504

Designer furniture at 50 to 80% discount. Without middlemen, you save when you buy sofas, armchairs, tables and more.

Twitter einträge zu einem bestimmten Hashtag auf einer Map darstellen

Twitterのホームページ上にある、可愛くて面白い小鳥のグラフィックは多くの人々に知られている。この小鳥はコミュニケーションと期待を象徴しており、Twitterにぴったりのグラフィックだと言う人もいるかもしれない。ただし同社は、このグラフィックをデザインしたデザイナーに6ドル以下の報酬しか支払わず、誰のデザインかも明らかにしていなかった。

「(クラウドソーシングがデザイナーにとってマイナスかどうかは)わからない。デザイナーが『ダメージを受ける』のは、たえず新しいひらめきを求め、経験を積んで新しいものを生み出すことをせずに、ただ列に並んで順番待ちをするようになった場合のみだと思う」

デザイナーが『ダメージを受ける』のは、たえず新しいひらめきを求め、経験を積んで新しいものを生み出すことをせずに、ただ列に並んで順番待ちをするようになった場合のみだと思う

iStockPhotoや他のStockPhotoサービスでもロゴとして（またはロゴの一部）としての利用に関しては認めない/拡張ライセンスで対応ってスタンスのところが多かったような。でもtwitterの鳥に関してはすでにそれに比する認識のされ方をしているような気もするんだけどなあ。

5 sites qui réinventent l'info aux States (local inside) http://bit.ly/dtDdJ4 (mashable) – rosselin (rosselin) http://twitter.com/rosselin/statuses/16075752452

RT @RoyHP: 5 Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News http://bit.ly/dfPeE1 RT @alicanth – Arnaud@Thurudev (arnaud_thurudev) http://twitter.com/arnaud_thurudev/statuses/15685339421

RT @alicanth: 5 Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News http://bit.ly/dfPeE1

Few industries are experiencing greater upheaval at the hands of technological progress than the news media. New ideas are popping up every day, so we’ve collected five of the most interesting ones for your consideration. The previous generation of sites that redefined the news birthed several household names — Twitter (Twitter), YouTube (YouTube) and Digg (Digg), to name a few. It’s no secret that newspapers have struggled as blogs and social networking sites have grown in prominence, but in the rapidly changing worlds of mobile and web technology, the distribution methods for news information are once again shifting. It’s difficult to predict whether or not these newly noticed innovators will become as popular as their predecessors, but they are introducing new approaches to the consumption of information that few have tried or thought of before.

philanthropy showcase. started by hollywood ppl

via Frank - this is Edward Norton's group fundraising site

As someone said to me a few weeks back: "Andy Warhol was wrong. We're not going to be famous for 15 minutes. We're each going to be famous for 15 People." Indeed. Advertising: We're standing at the end of an era. "Mass Media", the ability to reach large segments of the population with a single message is essentially over. For advertisers, the need to find content in context, and to have that context be appropriate for their message and their brand is critical. So, Curation replaces Creation as the coin of the realm for advertiser-safe environments. No longer can advertisers simply default to big destination sites. The audience is too diffuse and the need to filter and organize quality crowd-created content is too critical.

Use with Marnie's charity

layout -homepage

A book crowdsourced in one week may 21-28 2010

BBYIDX is a free and open source idea-gathering application written in Ruby and distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License. It's the basis of the Best Buy IdeaX website and was created by and supported by Best Buy Enterprise Services Inc and Bust Out Solutions, Inc.

BBYIDX is an open source platform for crowdsourcing ideas. Developed by Best Buy Enterprise Services, Inc. and Bust Out Solutions, Inc., it is the basis for the Best Buy IdeaX website.

BBYIDX is a free and open source idea-gathering application written in Ruby and distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License. It's the basis of the Best Buy IdeaX website

5 Creative Uses for Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing can be an important or disastrous way to build a company. Here are 5 ways startups have creatively used crowdsourcing to their advantage.

Interesting governmental site dealing with freedom (of the use of music potentially)

Web para eliminar leyes innecesarias

^CK HMG using an off the shelf crowd-sourcing package.

This site gives you the chance to tell us which laws and regulations you think we should get rid of.

@nick_clegg et al really cracking down on new/duplicate websites http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/ http://spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk/

Interesting governmental site dealing with freedom (of the use of music potentially)

Web para eliminar leyes innecesarias

^CK HMG using an off the shelf crowd-sourcing package.

This site gives you the chance to tell us which laws and regulations you think we should get rid of.

@nick_clegg et al really cracking down on new/duplicate websites http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/ http://spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk/