Have you ever thought you could design a car better than anything on the market? Then Project Splitwheel is looking for you, to help create a new sports car.
Project Splitwheel brings together gearheads from allover the world and allows them to vote on different concepts to create the world’s first crowdsourced sports car. Caterham Cars, [...]
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I thought I would pass this along. If anyone is looking to get into crowdsourcing then www.crowd-sourcing.com is up for sale on Sedo.com right now the bidding is at $3500 which is a good price.
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Dragons Den is going into its 3rd season in Canada but originated from a similar show created by Sony in Japan which ran for 3 seasons, other versions have aired in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Netherlands and Finland. Most recently Mark Burnett signed a deal with Sony for the American rights the show [...]
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Jeff Howe was interviewed today by cnet here are a few quotes.
Is there a bit of a tragedy-of-the-commons element to crowdsourcing, to content on YouTube and things like that, where the 80-20 rule–that 80 percent of content is low-quality–governs?
Howe: There’s an antidote to the 80-20 rule, and it’s that the crowd filters itself. I [...]
Are you ready for the next chapter of Crowdsourcing? Jeff Howe (the man who’s 2006 Wired article coined the word Crowdsourcing) new book is coming out next week: Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business. Tthe book follows the crowdsourcing trend and discovers how it is revolutionizing business, internet, [...]
Cambrian House has entered into a licensing deal with MakeGood a Vancouver based company that specialises in something they call Giving 2.0. Under the deal Cambrian House will supply MakeGood with its Chaordix platform and GreedyorNeedy.com (GoN) in exchange for cash and equity.
GoN was launched in November of 2006 under the name RobinHoodFund offering [...]
18 hours left to submit a logo to my crowdSPRING project. I am offering a $250 prize for a logo that best meets my needs. So fare there has been 57 logos submitted verying from crap to great. Feel free to vote for your favoret logo.
A little while back I reviewed crowdSPRING which is a new start up that allows companies to post projects that will be crowdsource by the community, currently its limited to Graphic Design, Web Design and Photography. crowdSPRING also appears to use a predictive which lets the community and the buyer to invest and give feedback [...]
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$99 for 370 name suggestions… sounded good to me. Recently I tested out Klusters new NameThis crowdsourcing system. NameThis allows people and company’s to use the wisdom of the crowds to come up with names and slogans for their companies. Other companies have used the wisdom to of the crowds to design logos, websites, advertising [...]
After just 37 issues of Klusters community driven newspaper has written its own obituary. Knewsroom was plaged with poor quality original articles and less then stellar linked content. The mock Obituary states the cause of death as starvation.
Knewsroom, was a daily “paper” users submitted new topics and stories each day and then members invest in them using a currency called “watts”. [...]