crowdSPRING was so confident that crowdsourcing was the way of the future that they used their own marketplace to design their website. The company posted a project and offered a $5000 prize asking creative people from around the world to contribute designs. in the end eighty individuals from dozens of countries submitted over 330 designs. [...]
Cambrian House the home of Crowdsourcing is no longer in the community development business. In fact they have sold their community along with their platform called Chaordix to a new company called VenCorps which is funded by Spencer Trask
“The Cambrian House crowdsourcing community has attracted 50,000-plus smart, creative people who work together to turn [...]
Kluster switched directions today and launched Knewsroom.
“our product is not nearly as cool as our process, lets ditch the product and make the processes our business” founder Ben Kaufman said in a video he posted to YouTube. “Seven weeks in and a million dollars down the drain, we know what works,”
Kluster launched 6 weeks [...]
Tonight VenCorps new splash site went live, the site dose not provide much information as of yet.
Retrieved from the site:
What is Community Powered Capital?
VenCorps is a network of founders, funders and facilitators focused on discovering, funding and growing startups.
About Us
VenCorps brings together the power of collaborative innovation and venture capital. VenCorps taps into the [...]
Jeff Howes new book on Crowdsourcing is due out in July 29. Jeff says
The most salient, witty or astute remarks will be published as an appendix in the final chapter of the book.
So check out Jeff blog and get reading.
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Today TechCrunch reported that Cambrian House (a leader in crowdsourcing) has been sold to Spencer Trask and will form a new company called VenCorps.
Sources inside Cambrian House have denied that the company has been sold and point to a New York Times article, about the company that points out the opposites. With more information [...]
Do you want to designs video games? Want to get your feet wet, but just not sure how? How about collecting royalties on a game you helped create?
If this sounds interesting then check out Crowded Games.
Crowded Games was launched in 2007 for one reason, to enable the community to design a xbox arcade game called [...]
Just a few hours after my last post Jeff posted part 1 of Chapter 6 The Most Universal Quality - Why Diversity Trumps Ability
Jeff Howe’s Book Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business came out of story that he wrote for Wired in June 2006 The Rise of Crowdsourcing. His book is set to be released July 29 of this year. You can however read 4 chapters of his book here:
Chapter 2 [...]
There are certainly a lot of ways to tap the wisdom of crowds, but CrowdChess is really doing some interesting work matching up chess grand master Gawain Jones against the crowd. While I’m an obvious proponent of using the wisdom of crowds, I’m not sure that the wisdom of crowds will work in chess. [...]
