The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has long been shrouded in mists made of equal measures of awe, mystery, controversy, and spying. Now it's strolling out of those clouds, jauntily singing a 1980s pop ditty by Nena. 99 ...READ»
Instead of just writing trite wall posts and playing FarmVille, what if Facebook users could be directed towards doing good deeds? That's the thinking behind the Chase Community Giving Program, a new app that allows users to choose ...READ»
If you could earn virtual coin in exchange for doing simple real world tasks, would you do it? Now there's a way to find out: Gambit, a company that specializes in monetizing social gaming, has teamed with Crowdflower, which manages ...READ»
Crowdsourcing usually invokes an image of thousands of people contributing to a vast database--à la Wikipedia. But it needn't be so large scale: The Huffington Post uses a quick'n'dirty crowd system to test the popularity of its ...READ»
Augmented Reality may well be the killer app for GPS and compass-empowered smartphones, but the tech has a significant drawback--it requires accurate points of interest to make it useful. A new start-up, L.A.-based unit called ...READ»
Companies have crowdsourced everything from ad campaigns to package design, usually through contests. But Spanish telecom giant Telefonica is putting a new degree of trust in users, handing over the marketing, technical support, and ...READ»
When it comes to game-changing ideas, is there really wisdom in crowds? Given several efforts at crowdsourcing creative content and product development in recent years, more than a few companies seem to think so. What's less clear is ...READ»
HP and Amazon's latest ad campaigns may use crowdsourcing to generate advertisements, but the concept is far from new. Dorito's "Crash the Super Bowl" contest, launched in 2006, has been one of the more successful campaigns of this ...READ»
As our nationwide economic turbulence continues, discount Web sites are proliferating. They don't rely on the typical economic mechanisms to get their customers deals--they're not about razor-thin margins, or closeouts, or ...READ»
A group of scientists and researchers from the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and Columbia University is working on an iPhone application that turns budding scientists into valuable research contributors.
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New York wants to reinvent its taxis. The metropolis just put out an all-points-bulletin to tech companies, and the general public, seeking new gizmos and innovations that would improve the cab riding experience. The city's ...READ»
Ten brains are better than one, right? Crowdsourcing will always make projects go faster. That's why The Energy Crowd, a crowd-sourced based Web site for renewable energy technologies, is moving so quickly with its first ...READ»
If you listen to the news, you'd think that President Obama's $819 billion stimulus package was drawn up in watercolor. What will get funded? Which states will get money? What are the parameters? A new website launched this week ...READ»
