Archive for September, 2007
Hey look at this! We stumbled across a cool site which aims at users teaching users. Great stuff, all for it. As of know they are not even in beta, let alone having people graduating :). But they claim to be multi channeled and free (actually they offer to share advertising revenue and make it […]
Crowds look for Steve Fossett
4 Comments Published by Carl Lens September 9th, 2007 in CrowdSourcing Initiative From the Mechanical Turk website:
On Monday, September 3, 2007, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling and the first person to fly around the world in a balloon went missing in Nevada. An airplane he was flying failed to return. No one has any idea where he […]
Another often reviewed crowdsourcing-classic is the ‘virtual R&D lab’ Innocentive. Innocentive is a crowd of over 110.000 researchers from 175 countries in scientific fields including Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology and Material Sciences. Companies can put out challenges on the website which can make the solvers quite some money (A biomarker for measuring disease progression in […]
We’ve blogged about lego before, but their “lego factory” remains one of the most fascinating examples of co-creation. In this video Mark Hansen of Lego gives a nice presentation about their projects at last years Emerce eDay. The presentation shows how advanced Lego is at engaging communities with their company. One of the things I […]
OpenInnovators.net came up with the great idea to start a Blog Carnival about Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation. The second edition has just been published. The third carnival will be about Government 2.0, I’m looking forward to that one; I can’t stop to say that the public domain is probably the most promising domain for crowdsourcing. […]
