26 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Crowdsourcing Documentary: Life In A Day

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 [...]

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26 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Two Faces of Crowdsourcing On The Oil Spill – Part II

In our last post we talked about two fronts where crowdsourcing was being used for the Oil Spill, in both the observation and coming up with solutions.
We couldn’t help to follow up that post with this two other very good examples.
The first one is a big one we missed: Innocentive, one of the top crowdsourcing [...]

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17 February 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Things we already use everyday have been crowdsourced

Sometimes crowdsourcing is thought of as being a new wave of business models (it is) of being the the future of business (in some ones, it is), and of being a niche in business (it kind of is).
But with this kind of  focus, many people don’t realize crowdsourcing is being used in the present and [...]

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