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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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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$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 [...]
NOVA recently did a segment on the Wisdom of the Crowds. This is a fun and educational video that gives you a good introduction to the wisdom of the crowds. Watch it here. The video is about Sir Francis Galton who was trying to prove that the noblem men were smarter then the commen man, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]