"Instead of tasking a massive team of developers to create their content, the developer behind SL, Linden Lab, simply built an infrastructure and the content creation tools necessary for other pe

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a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.

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Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.

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excellent book on crowdsourcing, using the decision making potential of a crowd, how it can go right, but also how it can go wrong

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Project to produce to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film.

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Vancouver International Film Festival's Asian section shows the most Asian premieres outside of Asia.

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"Work on a billion-dollar petrochemical plant in a major Chinese port has been put on hold following a text message campaign by protestors angry about industrial pollution, state media said on We

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"So are we headed to a world where the only stable jobs are those that absolutely require hands-on contact -- health maintenance, grooming, and the like? Or to one where wages even out across the

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"So why ask for people's opinions if you aren't interested in what they say? Because people are lazy enough to assume that protest and participation are the same thing."

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"It might seem very odd to look to a long-dead Russian anarchist for business advice. But Peter Kropotkin's big idea--that there are important human motivations beyond what he called "reckle

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"...if each person believes that the crowd is wiser than he is (as would typically be correct) then they will only echo back what they think is the crowd consensus, leading to "groupthink&qu

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"Yesterday a story made the frontpage of Digg [...] As of right now the story has 2860 Diggs but the original submitter has also posted a retraction on Digg." It's all about the fact-checkin

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"The tag line is 'Books by the Greats, Covers by You', and throughout the rush to design the (back) covers, get the right paper, and tell people about them, we've had a really great time." B

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"Some day, your boss could be a faceless Mechanical Turk who doles out tasks over the Internet. For nearly a year, Amazon's Mechanical Turk has paid [...] for tasks that take a few seconds to a f

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"Gannett, the publisher of USA Today as well as 90 other American daily newspapers, will begin crowdsourcing many of its newsgathering functions." The times they are a-changing.

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Our mission is to develop truly innovative services online. We already have some ideas, of course. But as champions of free markets, we abhor the concept of a closed system. This is why we would like

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Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.

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Good discussion on how open wikis should be. At this point in the game it's a good question. Is it best to limit control of it or let it all hang out?

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