What Does Crowdsourcing Really Mean?
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Author, musician and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks with Assignment Zero about why the term "crowdsourcing" rubs him the wrong way. It may be a corporate framing of a cultural phenomenon to be exploited.
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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Rojo  is trying to hire a few Engineers .  Rojo is an amazing company to work for.  We're working with some really impressive technologies and doing some really cool work.  If you're interested in RSS/Atom, Social Networking, Open Source, Java, Linux, etc then I'd highly recommend that you come and work with us.  If you suggest someone to Rojo, and we hire them, we'll give you a free iPod. At the very minimum its a nice gesture for your help.  Also if you want a free invite to Rojo please let me know.  We'd love to have more feedback.
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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Open source has many good uses.  Beating up one's competitors shouldn't be the primary one.
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Open Source methodology has gained some ground in one of the last places you and I might expect: In the development area of corporations. Consultants are calling environments like Sourceforge Enterprise Edition a Digital Development Environment.
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A youth marketing group is tapping into the growth of social networking by launching what it claims is 'the UK's first research and seeding community'.   Headbox.com can help brands to access to up to 30,000 young people who will provide input on PR campaigns and other marketing drives.
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Information sharing for the people Comment "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - nothing more and nothing less". - Humpty Dumpty in Wonderlandâ¦
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Don't let the so-called experts fool you.
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Is there something new that open source development methods and values can bring to the economy? How about something old?  I think the answer may come from the developing world, where pre-industrial methods and values persist and offer some helpful models and lessons for a networked world that's less post-industrial than industrial in a new and less impersonal way. This began to become apparent to me a few years ago I had a Socratic exchange with a Nigerian pastor named Sayo, whom I was lucky to find sitting next to me on a long airplane trip.
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Yahoo Answers is the knowledge sharing Q&#038;A based social network with over 90 million users worldwide with around 18 million users in the United States. Becoming the pinnacle Social Media offering online because of its ease of use and community feel, Yahoo Answers is a vibrant web neighborhood of information sharing and a fresh alternative to [...]
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Crowdsourced journalism's promise must be realized by the crowd, so hearing from and listening to the users is key. From Assignment Zero, an experiment in open-source, pro-am journalism produced in collaboration with Wired News.
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Think you know advertising? Think again. The social web is challenging all conventions, from who creates the content to how we define media.
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Most of us assume computers make people smarter but one researcher looks at ways people make computers smarter. "Human computation" is the art of using massive groups of networked human minds to solve problems that computers cannot master.
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Company weighs idea after thousands of users vote for it online.
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If the load of application relies on incoming events, you may eventually face the happy curse of popularity: too much work to do with your available resources. If you set a limit on how many events you can process within a time period, you can avoid the flood. Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski explains the algorithm and demonstrates working code.
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Plot lines from recent books are written by a cast of hundreds, even thousands, of often anonymous contributors who congregate online to write, collaborate, read, analyze and edit each other's words in crowdsourced fiction and nonfiction.