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Don't Have Time To Haggle Your Daily Deals? oBaz Can Help

Daily Deals sites are still raging, but typically you only get what you're offered. So what would happen if a company listened to a group of consumers and tried to arrange a deal based on what they want? That's what oBaz--launching today--is trying to do.READ»

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Walmart Gets Its Groupon but Does Not Let Shoppers Dictate Deals

Walmart's execs know a money-making scheme when they see one, and they've zeroed in on Groupon's consumer money-saving coupon model as a good thing. So they're launching their own version. Kind of.READ»

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Is Crowd Sourcing Killing South By Southwest?

Opening up the approval process of presentations to participants seems like a good idea, but is it slowly killing the popular SXSW conference?READ»

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Kopernik Channels Copernicus, Crowd Sources for Social Good

Copernicus changed the way people viewed the world. Kopernik is changing the approach to development. Social Venture Kopernik uses crowd sourcing and crowd funding to connect progressive technologies, poor communities and a global network of donors. READ»

Using Crowds to Predict Outcomes at Predictify

Predictify is an interesting new service that predicted the correct outcome of almost every playoff football game, among other things. How? By using you playing a game on its service. Here we get the scoop from Mike Agnich, co-founder ...READ»

Cisco's visionary SVP shares about how Web 2.0 is affecting business

Nick Earle, SVP at Cisco, talks to me about what he's seeing happen inside the enterprise thanks to Web 2.0. Customization. Social networking. Changes to data centers and cloud computing. All that and more came up in ...READ»

Facebook Turns to the Crowd to Monitor the Crowdies

Facebook has begun testing a system that's in vogue at the moment: Using its own users as a data-crunching system. Nothing terribly new there--except that Facebook's using its crowd to actually moderate the rest of the crowd and ...READ»

Is Innovation Just Another Business Model? 3 Systemic Innovation Processes

Innovation has gone from being an "A-Ha" Moment to a field that is studied and can be predicted. READ»

Crispin Porter + Bogusky's Crowdsourcing Experiment Backfires

Designers revolt after the ad-agency solicits a crowd-sourced logo for Brammo Motorcycles.READ»