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Yes, you gotta love Lego! Not only is the company doing amazingly well during this ”crisis”; they are also constantly experimenting with new ways of working together with partners. Their new thing is Lego Cuusoo . Here Lego has teamed up with Cuusoo , which is a Japanese pioneer of user innovative product design that introduced a design-to-order process already in 1998.
You Gotta Love Lego – Crowdsourcing meets Open Innovation! | 15inno
The headline screams like a disaster. It’s not really that bad. Yes, Lego took a loss around that size when they decided to shut down their online game, Lego Universe , but they also learned some valuable lessons.
Lego’s $50 Million Open Innovation Failure | 15inno
The jobless future « BuzzMachine
Holding out blind hope for the magical appearance of new jobs and the reappearance of growth in the economy is a fool’s faith. Politicians who think that merely chanting the incantation “jobs, jobs, jobs” will bring them and the economy back are fooling us if not themselves. When at least a tenth of Americans are out of work, for Wall Street to get momentarily giddy at the creation of 117k jobs is cognitive dissonance at its best.
Crowdsourcing is changing both the way we work, as well as the way Internet applications are designed and delivered. It's no longer just the domain of technologists (who can now achieve breakthroughs together never before achievable); crowdsourcing is now ripe for enterprise professionals to understand and leverage the possibilities for their business goals. From Wikipedia and YouTube, crowdsourcing has moved to a $5B "crowd worker" industry with applications proliferating for productivity, research, marketing, advertising, creative development, corporate workflow management, language translations, and much more -- see a list of projects here . Moderated by Ray Solnik , an experienced "crowdsorcerer" and interim executive at multiple crowdsourcing companies, the expert panel includes the following speakers whose experience spans domains, geographies, and applications:
Event - Crowdsourcing CEO & Expert Panel: From Phenomenon to Business Model - PARC, a Xerox company
The Long March from Crowdsourcing to a Global Meritocracy
OK, this isn't working anymore. Too many people either don't have a job or the ones that do are predominantly dissatisfied. We've been talking about networked organisations and distributed work for decades, but productivity gains have been dim the past ten years. Everything worked just well enough to not think about structural changes. We tried to apply collaboration and fancy search platforms like new paint on a crumbling house that could be fixed.
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Work marketplaces like MTurk are great for accomplishing small, well defined nuggets of work, such as labeling images and transcribing audio, but terrible for many more complex and labor intensive real world tasks. Over the last year, Robert Kraut, Niki Kittur and I formalized a general process of solving such complex problems using MTurk. We proposed three basic types of tasks and explored them in two neat experimental applications.
CrowdForge: Crowdsourcing Complex Tasks | Boris Smus
Legion
Legion is a system that allows end users to easily capture existing GUIs and outsource them for collaborative, real-time control by the crowd. Legion introduces a new style of crowdsourcing, one in which the crowd no longer works as a set of disjoint individuals working on tasks which have been broken down ahead of time, but rather as a single, reliable, worker. This approach enables the crowd to control continuous tasks and interfaces. Legion then forwards a video feed of the interface to the crowd and forwards key presses and mouse clicks made by the crowd back to the interface.crowdsourcing