The FLIRT Model of Crowdsourcing
I meant to write about this a while ago, but am just getting to it. Sami Viitamaki has an interesting, exhaustive overview of what one needs to consider when implementing crowdsourcing.
Archive | Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is not slave labor.
Viewing a crowdsourced project as merely a parasitic path to free labor will doom it to failure. The benefits have to flow both ways. That’s the trick.
Group buying for fun and discounts
While I haven’t seen any examples of group buying in the US, there are groups in Japan (Auto Group Buy), China (Teambuy, Taobao, Liba), and Malaysia (Tumpang) who have implemented it. Very simply: groups of consumers pledge to buy or put a deposit down for products that are then bought in bulk and sold to [...]
Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Projects List
Although I’ve highlighted a good number of these already, Openeur has a great list of on-going crowdsourcing and open innovation projects. Shows the range of cool stuff happening and points to the possibility for much more to come. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
Design Our Pepsi Can Contest
Pepsi conducted a contest recently called Design Our Pepsi Can. Users submitted 100,000 designs and through online voting decided on their favorite design. The designer won $10K and gets the warm and fuzzy’s associated with having his design printed on a line of cans. Had Pepsi gone the traditional route the design would have cost [...]
Innovative Companies of the day…
This is only marginally related, but it’s interesting, nonetheless: Mock Up My Tattoo. You choose a tattoo design or upload one of your own, upload a picture of yourself, and then they place the tattoo on your picture so you can see what it would look like. MyDesignIn allows you to create an interactive floor [...]
