I stumbled upon a great webdesign project that took place in the past two years. The insight the project offers is very useful when thinking about crowdsourcing; its even a crowdsourcing project itself!

The project is called Vormator and is all about the above eight shapes. The designers participating in the project have this set of […]

Clay Shirky came up with a word that solves the problem of explaining the essence of crowdsourcing: “cognitive surplus”. This is the unused potential of the minds of 6,7 billion people. Social media is unlocking this potential. Technology allows us to be creative and productive instead of consumptive. Or as Shirky puts it:

We watched I […]

In the advent of publishing Jeff Howe’s Book “Crowdsourcing”, Crown publishers made a nice trailer about the book. Jeff gave us a copy already so before the launch date August 26 we will write a thorough summary.

Jeff Howe, the inventor of crowdsourcing, calls upon the crowds to comment on his soon-to-be-published book: Crowdsourcing. After crowdsourcing the artwork for the cover of the British version of his book he now searches for the intelectual improvements that the crowds have to offer.
Here are the chapters that need your unsalted critique, deep insights and […]

A new report by Forrester teaches that companies’ budgets for web2.0 technologies will radically increase over the next five years. “This increase will include more spending on social networking tools, mashups, and RSS, with the end result being a global enterprise market of $4.6 billion by the year 2013″ (source).

An interesting finding in the report […]

Following up on Stijns last article please participate in this short Youtube experiment:

Seth Godin linked to the video asking: “You were going to spend how much to distract me from what I was doing?”.
What this teaches me is that one can buy ads like a moonwalking monkey or one can try to find other ways […]

Microsoft has just announced that traditional marketing is dead and they are gonna reeducate us. Typical, we have been working on the premise that the traditional CPM model is limping on it’s last legs for over a year now (this quote is borrowed from CSD’s lonewolf Rutger).
Where Microsoft remains vague silent and closed (how last […]

Humans and computers are both problem solving machines and though current computers can perform incredible feats, for various tasks computers are just not smart enough. Tasks that require pattern recognition in high dimensional data are notoriously hard and surprisingly wide spread. Since humans are pretty much ‘designed’ to do these task they don’t stand out […]

I already knew Google Translate for a while and I like it quite a lot. Of course the translations are far from perfect, but it is great that the app can translate whole sites, and present them in their original outlook.
Technology might not be as far as translating text like humans, so why not use […]

The last couple of months we have seen the introduction of quite some books and blogs related to crowdsourcing (even crowdsourced books about crowdsourcing) but the man who came up with the word has been awkwardly silent on his blog. Readers of his blog were already aware of the reason: Jeff Howe is writing a […]