Trash to Treasure 30 Apr 2013
The app, still in beta, won Best App for City Crowdsourcing at Reinvent Green, a sustainability hackathon where it was created last year...
An Open Book 17 Oct 2012
The Collabowriters: Chicago-based artist and storyteller Willy Chyr has been crowdsourcing words instead of funding for an Internet-authored book...
Out of Many, One 9 Oct 2012
Indeed, crowdsourcing has hit the gaming industry, allowing fans to weigh in on everything from art design to soundtracks and publishing schemes...
Post Haste 2 Oct 2012
The Prezi-style concept is similar to Pinterest, except that it allows for mixing images and text in one sphere and embraces the crowdsourcing culture of the web...
All the News That's Fit to Upload 19 Jun 2012
NewsiT: Journalist Melinda Wittstock, harnessing both crowdsourcing and gamification, hopes to create a flourishing source of citizen journalism with her new reporting platform NewsiT... Currently in private beta, it borrows from some white-hot current tech trends, such as geo-location, crowdsourcing, and widely popular, highly profitable Instagram...
It All Adds Up 23 Jan 2012
Echoing the popularity of crowdsourcing, crowdfunding has become a wildly successful way for entrepreneurial and creative projects to get off the ground... Lucky Ant wants to garner the power of localized crowdsourcing to empower people to invest in their own neighborhoods...
Prepare for Gift-Off 10 Oct 2011
In a world where crowdsourcing is king and Kickstarter proves that anything’s possible, it’s a wonder that it’s taken this long for social gifting to take off...
Allies in Art 6 Oct 2011
Having reached its fever pitch, the crowdsourcing movement has inspired a seemingly infinite assortment of collaborative concepts, impacting everything from design to journalistic content...
Techno Shopping 29 Jul 2011
Of course, a style algorithm has yet to emerge, so Where To Get It instead employs crowdsourcing to help site members determine the origin of garments and accessories...
Waste Not, Wear Not 5 Jul 2011
Through its Trim the Waste of Fashion contest, social innovation website Yoxi is crowdsourcing ideas on how to reinvent how clothing is made and worn, such as concepts for reducing the estimated 20 percent of fabric trashed or the pollution that spews from apparel factory smokestacks...
Democracy in Style 2 May 2011
The practice of crowdsourcing has infiltrated everything from music videos to fundraising...
How Do You Say…? 22 Feb 2011
That’s right—Twitter is crowdsourcing translation, much in the way Facebook did in 2008...
What Wood You Do? 3 Jan 2011
His latest woodworking initiative includes experimenting with the crowdsourcing craze...
Dining Out (Of The Box) 10 May 2010
Applying the concept of crowdsourcing to the food industry in a way that's never been seen before, the project gives public credit to everyone whose ideas and recipes are used...
Pop! Goes the Shop 8 Oct 2009
And in a wise use of the crowdsourcing trend, planeshop invites customers to vote on which brand they'd like to see in the space next...
Explore the Twitterverse 27 May 2009
TwitterJobSearch: Perhaps the most of-the-moment new development in Twitter is TwitterJobSearch, which uses crowdsourcing and link-crawling to track recruitment offers in Tweets...