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Help Wired.com Crowdsource This Song
The internet has made it easy for us to hear everything from the worst song in the world to whatever we like the most, in mere seconds. Now, we’re going to try to find out if it can improve music ...
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U.S. Challenges Citizens to Solve Its (Our) Problems
The United States General Services Administration, or GSA, will run government-wide contests on a new prizes-for-solutions platform, in an attempt to spur efficiency while motivating the public to...
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Top 5 Songs: Wired.com’s Crowdsourced Music Experiment Rocks
It’s official: The crowd rocks. We mean this not as a vapid recapitulation of basic crowdsourcing theory, but in terms of the real results from an experiment in crowdsourced music that created several...
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Flickr Co-Founder Has a Hunch: Personal Data Will Drive the Future
NEW YORK — Caterina Fake, the former Salon.com art director who co-launched Flickr in 2004 and sold it to Yahoo the following year for around $30 million, wants to help you figure out what...
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Shuffler Channels Blogosphere into Simple Music Stations
We know — you’re not exactly hurting for new ways to listen to music right now. Nonetheless, an upcoming service called Shuffler will try to win you over next Tuesday when it will offer an easy way to...
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For ‘Creativity,’ Just Add ‘Crowd’
Everyone loves the crowd these days. The collective mind, proponents say, can do everything from mapping crime to funding wacky art projects to solving the world’s toughest mathematical conundrums. But...
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Expertsourcing (Or, How to Test a Product Without Losing It in a Bar)
The race is all about finding and fixing bugs faster, cheaper and everywhere, in every condition, before an end-user even gets a chance to see them. If that means rounding up an ad hoc flash mob of...
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Crowdsourcing As A Service: Citizen Reporters, Mystery Shoppers and...
Engagement Media Technologies makes mobile apps and backend services for three very different industries: citizen journalism, retail brand engagement, and intelligence and security operations.
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How One Startup Turned a $5,000 Contest Into Millions
Late last year, San Francisco startup Jetpac offered $5,000 in prizes to anyone who could figure out how to teach a computer how to tell which of your Facebook friends' vacation photos are any good....
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Contest Lets the Crowd Create Your Next Billion-Dollar Algorithm
The cult of the founder tells us that great companies start when lone geniuses sweat through the night turning the world's next great idea into code. But what if you could still start a company while...
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