We’ve had a few posts about crowdsourcing initiatives in the movie business. Interestingly enough, yesterday Techcrunch TV posted a very interesting video on this subject, with Gene Massey from Cinema Shares.
Also if you get a chance after the video, check out the interesting discussion going on in the comment section on Techcrunch.
But first, here’s the [...]
Diaspora* was all over tech blogs last week. In the midst of all the Facebook privacy news, a group of NYU students got a project together and put up a page on Kickstarter go get $10.000, mainly for their 3 month summer coding it.
After the New York Times did a piece on them, Techcrunch and other [...]
MusikPitch is new and very interesting crowdsourcing service, where anyone who might want a music made (say a business, for a movie, or even for personal uses) can post a project and have musicians enter a contest to win.
Here’s the video they have on their page explaining it:
All this creates a marketplace for songwriters, who [...]
This is one of those genius ideas! Making use of the built-in accelerometer most modern laptops have in order to sense movement on the computer (due to the hard drive), Elizabeth Cochran of the University of California and Jesse Lawrence of Stanford, have built a computer program that repurposes it to detect earthquakes.
Not only that, [...]
This site has been up for a while (it was reported on Techcrunch a a month and a half ago) but I stumbled on it again recently and reminded of how great this idea is.
Fiverr’s tagline is it’s whole business, you post things you would do for 5 dolars, and then someone who has it done pays and [...]
The man who fathered the word “Crowdsourcing” has a very interesting experiment going on.
It starts with the tagline: “What If Everyone on Twitter Read One Book?”, and follows with “What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, international book club?”.
That’s the premise of this experiment, [...]
This is a very cool project that is using the collaborative talent of everyone who wants to, to produce a new music video for Ain’t No Grave” from Johny Cash.
On The Johnny Cash Project, you’ll get assigned three random individual frames from the a whole live-action music video, and will have a custom drawing tool with [...]
Data is something that is very important for web and app developers, for researchers, but also important for other segments of the population. And sometimes, there isn’t much access to rich data.
Now a new service wants to be the “Wikipedia for structured database-like information”, as one of its investors puts it. Enter Factual.
It’s not a, [...]