December 2007 I wrote about the early successes of Galaxy Zoo (read the Pro-Am revolution reached astronomy). Ever since I have been subscribed to their newsletter to be kept up to date on the great stuff they are doing there.  The story so far has been thrilling.
The original Galaxy Zoo was launched in July 2007, […]

While ABN Amro is tmissing the poin, Kiva.org is the living example of the joy that money can bring. Traditional banks are dealing with money, Kiva is dealing with passion. Stories like this short movie are a great example (via):

A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan from Kieran Ball on Vimeo.

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 […]

Goosegrade is a new service that allows blog readers to suggest edits to blogs. Bloggers that don’t have editors (they don’t) can now trust on the crowd to do that job. “As a blogger, I was used to receiving e-mails from conscientious readers saying it’s ‘its’ not ‘it’s’,” explains John Brooks Pounders (c0-founder).  “The idea […]

It will take a while for market equilibrium to be reached in the navigation market. Dutch company TomTom has gained a strong position but Garmin and many industry outsiders like Nokia and Google are just as likely to rule the market in a few years. One interesting feature makes TomTom stand out. It’s called MapShare […]

An increasing amount of crowdsourcing initiatives make it easier to outsource work to the crowds. One of the promising new entrants in this market is Crowdspring. I interviewed founder Ross Kimbarovsky and marketer Pete Burgeson who took on the battle with players like 99designs and since last month even Microsoft!
What is crowdSPRING?
crowdSPRING is the creative […]

If you ask me: Kluster is on the right track. The latest addition to the Kluster.com family of crowdsourced businesses is called Namethis.com. For anyone in need of inspiration and market tested name ideas for products or companies: namethis is the cure.

Just like the other Kluster site knewsroom, you get paid based upon your […]

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 […]

The guys at Kluster.com sure know how to keep people talking. The biggest tech blogs started talking about the community even before they went live and their launch on the TED conference got quite some coverage. Kluster keeps pace and launches Knewsroom.
What I understand from Mashables’ coverage is that Newsroom will be published daily with […]

Another promising Crowdsourcing startup went public last week. US-based ‘Local Motors’ aims to make, sell and service cars in a totally new way.
In a process they call ‘Micro-factory retailing‘ Local Motors is putting up a network of local workshops that will produce and sell the cars that are co-created by the community. This decentralized way […]