Ushahidi :: Home. Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity. /b/ - Random. Crowdsourcing. Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing. Remember outsourcing?
Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. By Jeff HowePage 1 of 4 next » 1. The Professional Story Tools Story Images Click thumbnails for full-size image: Claudia Menashe needed pictures of sick people. In October 2004, she ran across a stock photo collection by Mark Harmel, a freelance photographer living in Manhattan Beach, California. The National Health Museum has grand plans to occupy a spot on the National Mall in Washington by 2012, but for now it’s a fledgling institution with little money.
After several weeks of back-and-forth, Menashe emailed Harmel to say that, regretfully, the deal was off. iStockphoto, which grew out of a free image-sharing exchange used by a group of graphic designers, had undercut Harmel by more than 99 percent. He can’t, of course. It took a while for Harmel to recognize what was happening. Idea Management - Innovation Management - Crowdsourcing - Suggestion Box - Customer Feedback Software. Ethics of Crowdsourcing – What Constitutes an Abuse of the Commons | Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne. While getting ready to launch Finder! We had an internal debate whether or not to put limits on dataset downloading. There were several options, ranging from requiring a user to be logged in before they downloaded to limiting the number of downloads a user could make in a day. A lot of the argument centered around the value of raw data – echoing the O’Reilly manifesto that “data is the Intel inside“.
This belief holds that the value of the NAVTEQ’s and TeleAtlas’s of the world is derived from the proprietary data they collected. One side of the company felt that by not limiting access to data we were giving away the family jewels. The other side felt that open access was the best way to create a network effect for data by making it as accessible as possible.
At the end of the day the open access philosophy prevailed, and from the sound of comments to James Fee’s post after GeoWeb, access to data is still an important facet to both GIS and GeoWeb users. Now that Finder! …finder.com/add? Ross.