Citroën and Facebook collaborate on crowdsourced car design
Citroën is asking its Facebook fans to design a bespoke version of its C1 Connexion city car.The French car manufacturer claims that the special edition will be the first production vehicle in the UK...
View ArticleKaggle combines crowds, data and million-dollar prizes
Here’s a project: have a root around in a mountain of historical claims data and see if you can identify the patients who will be admitted to hospital in the next year. There’s a whopping $3m waiting...
View ArticleCrowd-sourced, crowd-funded game hits app store
Kempt, a games studio in Canterbury, UK, has launched an experiment with its latest game, Bar Fight Live.The studio creates branded games such as Kart Fighter for Red Bull, Sheeps of Rage for Sony and...
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Peter Gabriel crowd sources video to promote anniversary of ‘So’ album
Musician Peter Gabriel is re-releasing album So, with a special edition box set, to mark the albums 25th anniversary. To promote the new album the artist is asking fans to help him recreate a new music...
View ArticleCancer Research UK seeks wisdom of crowds to analyse data online
Cancer Research UK has set up a website called ClicktoCure which invites anyone to get involved in helping it analyse the cells in slides. The aim of the project is to utilise the power of the crowds...
View ArticleHard-working crowd gets to work on ash crisis, free press and radio sitcoms
December has been another challenging month for the crowd, whose wisdom has been called upon to solve everything from the ash dieback crisis to the ever-worrying shortage of quality radio comedy.Anyone...
View ArticleNissan combines crowdsourcing and tech to build the ‘ultimate performance...
Nissan has launched a three-month project titled Nismo #JukeRide which will see it create a state of the art performance enhancing car with full input from its community of car enthusiasts.Nissan wants...
View ArticleCrowdFlik turns every event into a social multi-camera video shoot
Jack White doesn’t like them; Yeah Yeah Yeahs put up prickly notices telling people to keep them in their pockets; 66.74% of people can’t stand them.Tags: social re-engineeringcrowd-sourcingsocial...
View ArticleCrowdsouring makes an early mainstream success of 3D printing
3D printing, as we know, is a major technology in search of a mainstream tipping point. And while the printers themselves are increasingly easy for designers and specialists to come by, how many people...
View ArticleBrazilian shopping app rewards secret shopping with cash
PiniOn is a Brazilian shopping app for smart phones that incentivizes consumers to give quality, real time feedback on brands in exchange for cash points. The app collects consumer reviews on products...
View ArticleThe collaborative economy strikes a blow for the individual
If the idea of crowdsourced labour immediately calls to mind low-wage piece work services such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, it’s heartening to hear of models that don’t seem intent on turning the...
View ArticleTwitch pioneers short-burst mobile crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is all very well, but who seriously has time for that type of thing? This is why Wikipedia contributor numbers are down, and crowdsourcing campaigns suffer such high drop-out...
View ArticleLego Cuusoo: the website that sets the benchmark for crowd-sourcing
It happens several times a week. A brand, likely spurred on by its marketing or design department, announces a crowd-sourcing initiative. Although the press release will claim that said initiative...
View ArticleCrowd-sourced country: how Icelandic people are rewriting the constitution
They were all crowded uncomfortably into one boat when their banking sector collapsed in 2008, saddling a country of 320,000 people with €50bn of debt - or €156,250 for every man, woman and child....
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