Crowdsourcing directory Wikipedia
DEFINITIONS - USEFUL REFERENCES
Openeur crowdsourcing.typepad.com. Trendwatching
Open Source Knowledge PARTICIPATE / gain access to a community LEARN / Juniors ~ business school business cases GIFT ECONOMY PROMOTE OURSELVES HAVE FUN GET INSPIRED (read) + LEARN (ask) + SOLVE (do)
Distributed computing
POWER of CROWDS Tuangou
e-Commerce
From a COMPETITION among a few a COMPETITION AMONG A LOT
In gaming from multiplayer to massively parallel games
Many other photosharing ventures
Photos
Design - creative works
Logo design
WHAT ARE THE COMPELLING REASONS TO PARTICIPATE?
Innocentive
Ninesigma
Science and technology research
IdeaCrossing
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Sourceforge
Cambrian House
Ideas/Business + Code
Topcoder
Rent a coder
Software development
Utest
Software testing
Development problem
Other buzzwords to follow up # Mashup # Citizen science # Clickworkers # Collective intelligence # Configuration system # Mass Collaboration # Mass Customization # Open Innovation # Social commerce # Toolkits for User Innovation # Tuangou # Wikinomics # Wisdom of Crowds # Demand-side learning # Entrenched Player's Dilemma # File sharing # Human-based computation # Outsourcing # Participatory organization # Business Intelligence 2.0 # Audioscrobbling
Many other freelance sourcing ventures
User experience testing
CROWDSOURCING
Blogging - aggregation
Audioscrobbling
Agoravox
Helium
Digg
Selection / Crowdfilters
Last.fm
Radio stations
Writing / journalism - music New business development Incubator model
Idealab YCombinator
Wikileaks
Wikipedia
Technical / vertical wikis
Encyclopedias / collective references / books Kluster Shoe design
charlesleadbeater.net
Mahalo
Search Engines
General product development
Verticals / by product
Electronic product development T-Shirts Many other T-Shirt ventures
Mechanical Turk Crowd provides - crowd decides - collective rating HOW the project is run Crowd provides - experts decide - expert rating Competition Competition
Translations
Work (clickwork) - Assignments
Typing - keying - tagging
keys for CLASSIFICATION
REASON for the project
Deliberate choice Fun / Gift / Participation Efficiency - power of crowds
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