Friday, 12 June 2009
Hyperlinks from Jeff Howe's Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing: how the power of the crowd is driving the future of business by Jeff Howe (contributing editor to Wired) gives an illuminating view of ways the internet is being used to create new businesses and initiatives using the resource of a crowd.
I enjoyed learning about the innovative businesses and decided to list and link them this playful index:
#13 Learn cool tips from computer graphics pros. Weird Science here I come...
CGsociety and c4dcafe.com
#17 You don't have to cameo in a Revenge of the Nerds prequel to view a course in Computational Quantum Mechanics of Molecular and Extended Systems, here.
MIT OpenCourseWare
#18 Let Dell know how it should improve its products and services. Get bought out by Apple?
DELL ideastorm
#19 Local community info; if you happen to be a mom and in Cincinatti...
Cincy Moms Like Me
#20 Before you say that the Democratic Alliance will "rule the Western Cape until Jesus returns", check the prediction market that beats the pundits.
Iowa Electronic Markets
#21 Better to invest here than with M.T.P. {Madoff, Tennenbaum and Ponzi}!
marketocracy
#1 Last, but not least...
Google
I enjoyed learning about the innovative businesses and decided to list and link them this playful index:
#3 Where amateurs show the Spineless Aliterate Braindead Cowards (SABC) how it's done PLUS no license fee...
YouTube.com and current.com
YouTube.com and current.com
#4 Star Trek's Data's cat Spot is on Wikipedia... and I'm not.
wikipedia.com#6 Where Floridians blow the whistle on crime ('Not needed in Cape Town; it's only a perception problem', or so Mr Thabo told me...)
Florida Today's WATCHDOG page
Florida Today's WATCHDOG page
#9 Sorry, Mr Getty, but this time I'm buying good stock photos that won't bankrupt my clients.
iStockPhoto
iStockPhoto
#10 With rewards ranging from $ 5,000 to $1,000,000, best you unleash your troubleshooting genius here...
#13 Learn cool tips from computer graphics pros. Weird Science here I come...
CGsociety and c4dcafe.com
#17 If you buy a football club for just £35 a pop, do you get what you pay for?
#18 Copy code, tweak it and win more attention than my gold-plated-pocket-protector and tooth-grill.
Topcoder
Topcoder
#17 You don't have to cameo in a Revenge of the Nerds prequel to view a course in Computational Quantum Mechanics of Molecular and Extended Systems, here.
MIT OpenCourseWare
#18 Let Dell know how it should improve its products and services. Get bought out by Apple?
DELL ideastorm
#19 Local community info; if you happen to be a mom and in Cincinatti...
Cincy Moms Like Me
#20 Before you say that the Democratic Alliance will "rule the Western Cape until Jesus returns", check the prediction market that beats the pundits.
Iowa Electronic Markets
#21 Better to invest here than with M.T.P. {Madoff, Tennenbaum and Ponzi}!
marketocracy
#22 See how Intel plans for future hardware based on the cool software it must support.
Intel's COOLSW
Intel's COOLSW
#24 Need help crowdsourcing?
Cambrian House#1 Last, but not least...
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