Cross-posted from the Wooshii Blog
Wikipedia is one of crowdsourcing’s best and successful examples: it’s been way bigger than any other encyclopedia out there, and all done (mostly) by volunteers wanting to contribute it.
The thing is, many people usually wonder and ask: why so many people contribute for free?
Well they launched a video yesterday that shows [...]
Threadless is one of crowdsourcing’s most successful stories, and they started doing it even before people actually started calling it “crowdsourcing”!
We found this mini-documentary earlier today (via a tweet by @IdeaBounty), which was done in partnership with Dell and tells their story and what they’re all about.
It’s really interesting, and people involved in this area [...]
You probably have already seen a watch by japanese brand Tokyoflash – they have the strangest watches and whenever they release one, it gets posted on almost every gadget blog and the like.
Now they are holding a design challenge where people can submit their own cooky watch designs or as they call it “unique wrist [...]
Over time, we’re seeing the figures around crowdsourcing getting higher and higher, and with further importance.
Proof of this is another great example, GE has a competition for students, businesses or pretty much anyone with an idea for Renewable Energy, Grid Efficiency, or EcoHomes/EcoBuildings, to submit them and the best ones will get funding from a [...]
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 [...]
Dan Brown is a vlogger who started his career showing how to solve a Rubik’s Cube (a video now with close to 16 million views).
That was in 2007 and since then he’s built a fan-base, which he is using now to do a new show: ”Dan 3.0″ where he’ll ask them to make a decision [...]
The Guardian was reporting yesterday that one of the UK’s Government attempt at crowdsourcing has failed.
In an effort to crowdource the coallition’s programme, 9.500 entries were received but not one department took those into consideration for a change.
According to the newspaper, “its formal responses, published on each website, shows Whitehall regarded the process largely as [...]
This is a topic I’ve wanted to talk about a few weeks ago when the news came out, but we’ve had the server down last week and it kind of fell through.
So in May, the INTERPOL launched a program – Operation Infra-Red – to help out find 450 wanted criminals across the globe.
The thing is, [...]
The trend for crowdsourcing in filmmaking continues, this time in an even bigger effort and larger audience made possible by Youtube (and sponsored by LG).
Youtube partnered with Ridley Scott (director of Blade Runner, Gladiator, amongst many others) and Kevin MacDonald (director of Touching the Void and The Last King of Scotland) to have everyone film [...]
You guessed it, it was crowdsourced!
Until recently, India’s currency was represented with “Rs” (also used by Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka). But facing rival economies and symbols like €, $ or £, India decided it was time to get their own symbol.
So they launched a competition open to everyone, with a prize of Rs250,000 ($5,352), and [...]