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Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside

Today's user interfaces are limited: they only support tasks when we know how to write matching algorithms or interface designs. Microsoft Word is good at laying out your document, but poor at understanding writing and suggesting edits to it. But, it is now feasible to embed on-demand human computation within interactive systems. Crowd workers on services like Amazon Mechanical Turk will do tasks for very small amounts of money.
Six months ago, Toby Daniels and the product development firm Mutopo set their minds to eliminating the wastage of paper coffee cups—North Americans consume 58 billion year, most of which end up in landfills. To solve this problem, the team turned to design and set up Betacup , an open innovation challenge with a $20,000 incentive. With the backing of Starbucks, who aims to serve all their beverages out of recyclable and reusable cups by 2015; Denuo, community management experts; and Jovoto, an open innovation platform, the competition ran from April 1st through June 1st. http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/presenting_the_winners_of_the_betacup_design_competition__16755.asp

BetaCup Winners

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Real Life Super Heroes, the book! Hell Hound, Zetaman, Master Legend, Captain Prospect, Mutinous Angel… Whether they are acting alone or in... This project is funded at 35% The series «Street Views» is composed of 6 maps: one for each continent. We have identified, then made maps of all the places in the world ... This project is funded at 121% http://www.ulule.com/
http://blog.crowdspring.com/2010/12/2011-crowdsourcing-trends/ Crowdsourcing is fundamentally changing business, government, non-profits, education, research, and other sectors. Remarkably, we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg. Here are my picks for the top ten crowdsourcing trends for 2011: 1. Crowdsourcing marketplaces will earn significantly more market share. In 2010, the top two design crowdsourcing marketplaces (crowdSPRING and 99designs) together paid well over $1 million dollars every month to thousands of designers from around the world.

Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 « crowdSPRING Blog

Napkin Labs Blog // What Does It Take To Make It In 2011?

The power of ideas combined with the power of Facebook, Pipeline is an open forum with your fans. Let fans share their suggestions about your products, brand, ads, site, and more. Select your favorites and share updates as ideas are implemented and come to life. http://napkinlabs.com/
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