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FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. Michael Bernstein, MIT CSAIL. Crowdsourcing: What It Means for Innovation. Your crowdsourcing Platform. Your Crowdsourcing Platform. Is Crowdsourcing the Future of Advertising. 5 Creative Uses for Crowdsourcing.
When Jeff Howe coined the term “crowdsourcing” in a 2006 Wired article his examples were mainly “labor markets for specialized talents,” like iStockphoto, iFilm, and InnoCentive.
But the business model of outsourcing to the crowd has grown (as has Howe’s article — he published a book on the topic in 2008). As open-source software developers learned long ago, asking a pool of people to create something can be faster, cheaper, and more accurate than putting a project in the hands of individuals. Graphic: Follow the tweets of the Occupy movement.