MapQuest continues to embrace crowd-sourcing with today’s release of open.mapquest.com for the US. Since July 2010, the company released 10 international open mapping sites. Today, Mapquest has released a version that allows users to label previously unmarked destinations and add details, as well as contribute to error reports. Additional features include: Map tiles updated every…
Read MoreWhen Jake Nickell started the popular crowdsourced t-shirt design site Threadless in Chicago 10 years ago, he thought he’d be holding down a typical 9 to 5 with room for a life outside of his t-shirt making hobby. But Jake’s hobbie turned into a real business and has been one of the most interesting crowdsourcing…
Read MoreHow often do you leave your office worrying that you’ll run into traffic? How often do you check the traffic maps and then become disappointed or angry when you get on the road and see that they were wrong? If you’re interesting in a new approach, TrafficTalk is a “People-Powered Traffic Information Service” which utilizes CB…
Read MoreCrowdsourcing is nothing new but the Web has made it easier than ever to tap into a crowd of people for help. This article looks at a number of different businesses that leverage crowdsourcing but left out some of our favorites which include GeniusRocket and CrowdSpring. Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com Tapping the Wisdom of the Crowd…
Read MoreTo a salesperson, there is nothing quite as important as the sales lead. Without these vital pieces of the puzzle the industry would be next to impossible to navigate. The question is, how does one get a hold of these sales leads? Many times, companies will buy lists of generated sales leads from companies that…
Read MoreThese days it seems that an important part of the web landscape is crowdsourcing. Most of us crowdsource simply using your own social networks on Twitter and Facebook to pose a question or issue to “your crowd” and seeing how your network of contacts can help you out. On the flip side, there are also professional sites like…
Read MoreChallengePost is very clear about what it is - a marketplace for challenges. It’s all about crowdsourcing at its simplest. Individuals and organizations post challenges and offer cash awards for the best solution. Here’s how the founders of ChallengePost explain the concept: “Challenges are a successful vehicle for innovation, because they are capital efficient and they capture the…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This video episode was created by Tim Jahn, a longtime Chicago TECH cocktailer and storyteller who produces the online video series, Beyond The Pedway focused on better telling the local business stories in Chicago. You can follow Tim on Twitter: @timjahn. In this video episode, I’m chatting with Mike Samson and Ross Kimbarovsky…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This article was written by Shashi Bellamkonda. He blogs at: blog.networksolutions.com and shashi.name. You can follow him on Twitter at:@shashib. Symbian is the operating system that Nokia phones use and in a previous post you will see that Nokia is the largest cell phone company in the world. Scott Weiss user experience (UX) and user…
Read MoreI just sat down to chat with Peter LaMotte a long time TECH cocktail DC supporter. Peter has been working at GeniusRocket, a DC-based startup, on a new type of curated crowdsourcing that focuses on helping brands and agencies to find the diamonds in the rough. We discussed “crowdsourcing” in general last time we were…
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