Jeff Howe or Wired magazine coined the word Crowdsourcing in 2006 saying “Crowdsourcing represents the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call.” since then many people have found ways to [...]
There are a million interpretations of the word crowdsourcing, but the term is certainly gaining traction in the online community. Jeremiah Owyang, Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research, recently crowdsourced answers to the question What makes a Successful Marketing Campaign on Social Networks? In an Update to the blog post he said
I’ve thoroughly [...]
Microsoft announced today at the Game Developers Conference that they would allow Xbox LIVE members to play, rate and share community-created games. This new open distribution service will give the Xbox LIVE community the opportunity to share their work with 10 million members.
Microsoft is the first in the industry to open up their service to [...]
Have you ever given out an IOU? Perhaps to your best friend, brother, sister or neighbour down the street. IOU Central is the first peer to peer lending and borrowing system in Canada. Launched yesterday, IOU Central has already attracted a good deal of attention from people looking to borrow money and others to [...]
Boston based uTest is a Crowdsourcing Bug Zapper! A community of testers who search though software to find those elusive bugs. Companies are able to use the web based software to find bug, significantly reduced product cycle and turn out a better quality product. Testers are paid for each bug they find which should [...]
Parker Brothers the makers of Monopoly (the worlds most played game according to Guinness World Records) have launched a world wide contest to find the top 22 cities for their new game Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition.
Currently Montreal Canada is in the top place putting it at the Broadwalk position. The city [...]
