Definitions of crowd sourcing tend to vary and be quite broad. Because of this there are a lot of potential examples - it depends on what you are looking for - but here are a few:
Although they are rarely mentioned in this area, I think the best example is Google. Their search algorithm uses information generated from internet crowds (links, traffic, etc) to help decide which pages are most relevant to search requests. They've built an amazing business using crowdsourcing. The usual product examples in this area are: Wikipedia, Firefox, Linux and most other open source software. Innocentive and P&G's Connect and Develop program are often used for examples of crowd source innovation. Yahoo Answers and Amazon's Mechanical Turk are often used when talking about services. YouTube is often used as an example. Crowds contribute videos and YouTube sells ads against them. Craigslist and eBay also do this and are also used. The Audobon society has eBird which uses crowdsourcing to count bird populations, and the USGS uses crowdsourcing to help measure the range and impact of earthquakes. One of my favorites is Nvohk, which is using crowd funding to raise money for their business. A couple of resources: Wired has a crowdsourcing blog: http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/cs/ Open Innovators has a list: http://www.openinnovators.net/list-open-innovation-crowdsourcing-examples/ Steve On Mar 3, 1:15 pm, Scotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there I am doing a 20 min webcast group project on crowdsourcing > and I need to profile a company or product that has been sucessful > throught the medium of Crowdsourcing. Will you please send some ideas. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
