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 [...]
A nice logo design is one of the fundamental keys to having a good brand image that people will recognize all over the web. Corporations spend thousands of dollars on internal development teams or major marketing companies to create a nice logo design.
Well, one website called WiLogo is mobilizing the crowds to help with [...]
The tech blogosphere is abuzz with the news coming out of Starbucks. No, it’s not a new double chocolate extra caffeinated new coffee drink that’s causing the buzz. The buzz is around Starbuck’s new website called My Starbucks Idea that asks the crowd to give them ideas on how they can make Starbucks [...]
CrowdsourceThis.com is in the process of putting together a detailed directory crowdsourcing websites.
From YouTube, Digg, Cambrian House and everything inbetween.
If you would like your crowdsourced website to be listed in our directory please send us a email at CrowdsourceThis@gmail.com along with your website, and a description of your website along with how your website is [...]
Key points in this video to keep in mind:
In the beginning most media were controlled by the people.
60% of the content on the internet is created by the people.
Traditional media only 1% is created by people.
*Warning this video is one sided and CrowdsourceThis.com does not necessarily agree with everything in this video*
On December 14th 2007, Jeff Howes (editor of WIRED and the man who coined the word Crowdsourcing), Random House and Creative Review invited the public to crowdsource a cover design Jeff Howe’s forthcoming book Crowdsourcing. Entries were due February 10th 2008. The top 20 were selected and voted on by the crowd and the [...]
