Nike iPhone App: True City Uses Crowdsourced Info For City Guide

Nike is delving into the world of mobile marketing with their very own iPhone app - True City. This iPhone app is aimed at creating a tiered kind of travel or city guide for six prominent European cities. The...

Crowdsource Your Branding With NameThis

Q. How many crowdsourcers does it take to come up with a good web 2.0 startup name?A. Exactly 2.0: One to come up with a "playful", "cute", or "quirky" word and the other to remove or add strategically-placed...

Crowd-Powered Music Gets Microfinanced

New business models for the music industry seem to springing up all over. Here's the latest: Calabash is banking on their ability to crowdsource the financing of world music artists. Could this work for other...

Missy Elliott Crowdsources New Album Title

Missy Elliott 2.0 is all about user-generated content, crowdsourcing, and collaborative community building. No, she's not exactly developing a new mobile microblogging social networking web app, but she's still...

Jordan: Working in the Field

Hello, NowPublic contributors and readers! Today I am reporting, highlighting, flagging and crowdsourcing live from the Cornerstone Café in Vancouver. If you're in the neighborhood, come and say g'day: I'm not...

Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs

You can already feel the impact user-generated news will make in the upcoming 2008 US elections. This article in Wired Mag highlights a few of the players but ignores several others.I'm thinking The Examiner,...

Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs

You can already feel the impact user-generated news will make in the upcoming 2008 US elections. This article in Wired Mag highlights a few of the players but ignores several others.I'm thinking The Examiner, NewAssignment.net, Cleveland-Park  (a community we've been...

Watching Birds on Webcams... No, Not Like That

No, this isn't porn; it's interactive birdwatching. Webcams set up to watch a given environment are nothing new (I'm a fan of ski-report webcams myself), but this is the first I've heard of that has a crowdsourcing element."Craig Newmark has set up a webcam on his rear deck...

Sexploratoreum

MSM keeps calling Amora Academy of Sex and Relationships a "sex theme park", but it looks more like a sex modern-art gallery:"A sex theme park designed to enhance its visitors' lovemaking skills will open in the heart of London within months, the academy's director announced...

‘A Swarm of Angels’ crowdsourcing film production

Hollywood gets all crowdsy..."Can open source methodology be applied to film production? Yes, says UK filmmaker and author, Matt Hanson, whose own project, 'A Swarm of Angels', is attempting to "crowdsource" the...

Crowdsourcing Elizabeth Edwards

This crowdsourcing thing is really catching on:"Americans have probably discussed the family's choice more than anything else Mr. Edwards has done during the campaign thus far. That is definitely true online,...

Gannett to Crowdsource News

"The publisher of "America's newspaper" is turning to America to get its news.According to internal documents provided to Wired News and interviews with key executives, Gannett, the publisher of USA Today as well...

The Crowdsourcerer: NowPublic

By JACK KAPICA Globe and Mail Update"he June issue of Wired magazine coined an interesting buzzword: "crowdsourcing." It's like outsourcing, but with a large number of unpaid or...

Cambrian House - Submit Ideas and the Community builds it (ideas for Web Appl...

Cambrian House - Submit Ideas and the Community builds it (ideas for Web Applications)Earn money from just submitting ideas! Also, win a chance to detonate 25,001 Mentos! 

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