Tuesday, March 30, 2010

CloudCrowd: Crowdsourcing 2.0

Ventura campaigns for Google Fiber | Microsoft follows up and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G

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CloudCrowd: Crowdsourcing 2.0
The concept of crowdsourcing has attracted a lot of press but over the last few months its visibility seems to have waned slightly. It looks like two factors involved. The first is there's not been much in the way of "hot" news about crowdsourcing while the second is that for all but simple problems most crowdsourcing attempts can be disappointing. Read More


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