Archive for July, 2007
Wednesday the 1st of August will be a significant day for Crowdsourcing. Crowdspirit, the company that aims to revolutionize the Consumer Electronics industry by means of Crowdsourcing just anounced the launch of their Beta platform. Make sure you registered here before August 1st, to be invited to join…
(your chance to be a part of history!)
“Crowdsourcing is a word. We’ll see what it means”
4 Comments Published by Carl Lens July 19th, 2007 in The how and what of CrowdSourcingAfter reading the first AZ articles that were released on Wired it became very clear that the definition of Crowdsourcing is not very straightforward. Especially for a CrowdsourcingDirectory author this is stressful because it underlines the importance of a clear definition: we still have none. So as a precursor to our soon to be written […]
I didn’t check my checking account (ironic) for a while and apparently I saved some money. I know I am weird like that, but whenever i don’t know my balance I slip into savings mode.
So now I am online looking for some ways to invest the surplus. And I wouldn’t be much of a blogger […]
“Zero” down, many more to go…
2 Comments Published by Carl Lens July 10th, 2007 in The how and what of CrowdSourcing, CrowdSourcing InitiativeAs from yesterday Assignment Zero started publishing the first 5 of about 80 stories, articles and interviews they produced on Wired.Com. The magazine the term was conceived in, now offers the most elaborate collection of insights about Crowdsourcing. And it’s all crowdsourced!
March this year the story began with the following questions: “Can large groups of […]
CrowdVertising
1 Comment Published by Stijn July 6th, 2007 in The how and what of CrowdSourcing, CrowdSourcing InitiativeIn some sense CrowdSourcing is a marketing ploy as much as a business model. From the age old slogan to the ‘build your own video commercial’ competition. By the way doesn’t everybody know this friend of your uncles daughter, who seems to enter and win in all those slogan competitions? Apparently the video commercial world […]
Crowds buy a Football Club
5 Comments Published by Carl Lens July 3rd, 2007 in CrowdSourcing InitiativeSome computer games you don’t want to see become reality. Public life is not fit for the creatures (and their behaviors) you see in games like WoW, the recently abolished Manhunt2 or even SL. The immensely popular category of soccer management games however might become awkwardly real due to crowdsourcing…
On the site MyFootballclub.co.uk a crowd […]
