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What Does Crowdsourcing Really Mean?
Editor's Note: This story is reprinted from Assignment Zero , an experiment in open-source, pro-am journalism produced in collaboration with Wired News. This week, we'll be republishing a selection of Assignment Zero stories on the topic of "crowdsourcing." All in all, Assignment Zero produced 80 stories , essays and interviews about crowdsourcing; we're reprinting 12 of the best.
Best Books on Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing - Wikinomics, Collaboration & Management
Interested in Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing? Follow Open Innovators on twitter or subscribe to the Open Innovators RSS feed! Although blogs and online journals are much faster to report on the latest developments, books can provide an interesting synthesis of overall trends and insights. Here’s a list of 13 pioneering books about crowdsourcing and open innovation . I hope you enjoy reading some of these excellent books, and please feel free to share your remarks and suggestions below. Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company’s Future - by Patricia B.
How to Build a Collective Intelligence Platform to Crowdsource Almost Anything
Introduction The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence recently published an important overview of the theory and mechanisms behind successful crowdsourcing efforts. Their report, called “ Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence “, can be found here . Their research reveals similarities behind many high-profile collective intelligence (CI) systems, including Threadless , Wikipedia and InnoCentive .
10 Crowdsourcing Social Media Tools
Since we’re about to jump into 2010 (that’s “ twenty ten ,” everyone), I wanted to ring in the new year with something that will hopefully kick start your collaborative efforts. This is a guest post from Shevonne Polastre, who wrote this article on behalf of TopHost.Gr , a Greek web host that offers shared hosting. Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. It’s a model that is based on many people contributing to an idea, product, or service that would have usually been done by one person.
The phrase “on-demand human computation” has a sinister tinge to it, if only because the idea of sucking the brain power out of a group of people is generally frowned upon. And yet, if you call it “crowdsourcing” everything sounds so much friendlier! But calling Soylent “crowdsourced copy-editing” isn’t quite fair, since the system performs the type of jobs that are somewhere in the gray area between man and machine. More than a spell check, not quite the nightside copy editor versed in AP style, Soylent really is on-demand computation. It’s what all word processors need, the “Can you take a look at this?” button with a small workforce of people at your disposal.
It’s people! Meet Soylent, the crowdsourced copy editor
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