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How to Crowdsource Without Being a Jerk – Or an Idiot
In the six years since Jeff Howe coined the term ‘crowdsourcing’ in Wired Magazine, the phenomenon has grown into several distinct, maturing industries that give businesses and workers almost...
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Can The Internet Help This Woman Find The Perfect Gigolo?
You may not know this but ReadWrite is owned by a company called Say Media, which owns a handful of other sites, including xoJane, whose readers are mostly women, and not just any women, but the kind...
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How Change.org Puts More Power Into The Hands Of People
If you tuned into the Presidential debates this past Fall you may have caught the one moderated by CNN personality Candy Crowley. Remarkably, it was the first presidential debate moderated by a female...
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How I Saved Veronica Mars And Destroyed The Movie Industry
Veronica Mars, the critically acclaimed, little-watched television show from the mid-2000s was dead, buried — and nearly forgotten. I saved it. With my iPhone. I downloaded the Kickstarter funding app...
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Zach Braff Has Raised $1.65 Million For A Film On Kickstarter
Eschewing traditional Hollywood financing, actor-director Zach Braff has raised $1.65 million in two days on Kickstarter, the crowdsourcing platform, for “Wish I Was Here,” a follow-up to “Garden...
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Seesaw App Could Bring “Wisdom Of The Crowd” To Moral Dilemmas
The University of San Francisco launched a clever advertising campaign last year that stated, “There’s no ‘Moral Compass’ app.” Turns out that’s not exactly true. I’m not even talking about the apps...
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CrowdMed Wants To Crowdsource Your Medical Care To Strangers
Would you trust the “wisdom of the crowd” over your own doctor? CrowdMed thinks you might. The San Francisco start-up has an audacious plan to use crowdsourcing techniques to tap the “collective...
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The New Mad Men Of Advertising Are… Everywhere
Crowdsourced advertising platforms – some with Silicon Valley backing – are sprouting up to liberate untapped talent from around the world and remake television (and video) advertising. Companies such...
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Facebook Pushes AMBER Alerts To Your News Feed
Facebook is partnering with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to push AMBER Alerts to news feeds, the company announced Tuesday. AMBER (America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency...
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5 Startups That Could Shake Up Money, Shopping And More In 2015
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year. Startups are all about innovation, although it’s often difficult to distinguish in advance...
View ArticleThe Long March from Crowdsourcing to a Global Meritocracy
OK, this isn't working anymore. Too many people either don't have a job or the ones that do are predominantly dissatisfied. We've been talking about networked organisations and distributed work for...
View ArticleGoogle Accused of Fraud Against African Competitor [Updated: Google Statement]
Mocality, a Kenya-based crowd-sourced web and mobile business listings company, has accused Google of fraudulently stealing its customers. In a blog post today, Mocality's CEO Stefan Magdalinski...
View ArticleThe Year in Review at Kickstarter
Darling of the crowdfunders, Kickstarter released its stats for the past year, and there is a lot of data to digest. The total number of projects is more than double from last year, the success rates...
View Article$1m in 1 Day: Meet Double Fine, the New Kings of Kickstarter
Late last night Jane McGonigal, the most respected authority in the world of gamification, Tweeted that she’d pitched in to support the creation of a new point and click adventure game from respected...
View ArticleKickstarter To Outfund National Endowment for the Arts
If you're thinking about applying for an NEA grant, you might want to consider just doing it yourself on the Web's favorite crowdsourcing tool, Kickstarter. Co-Founder Yancey Strickler said today in...
View ArticleWhy Kickstarter Outfunding the NEA Isn’t a Good Thing
The Internet had mixed reactions to last month's news that Kickstarter was on track to outfund the National Endowment for the Arts. On the one hand, this was great news for artists and creative people...
View ArticleAmazon Streamlines Mechanical Turk With Automatic Categorization App
The idea behind Amazon's Mechanical Turk is pretty simple - break programming work down into bite-sized chunks, and put it in front of a large workforce that can do the work quickly and cheaply. Part...
View ArticleThe Key To Crowdsourcing? Smarter Crowds
For nearly a decade, we’ve been hearing about the power of the crowd and the ability of social networks to unleash their power in everything from building an encyclopedia to helping people predict the...
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