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Response #8: Crowdsourcing
Filed under: Crowdsourcing | Tags: 99design, collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Digg, Fat Muffin, Kraft
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In the technological and modern age that we are right now, Crowdsourcing is going to take the lead every time more and more… leverage mass collaboration.
In addition to the sites discussed in class: 99design, Mechanical Turk, My Starbucks Idea apparently there are many more that we use every day but we don’t realized that these sites are a success thanks to the extensive collaboration of the people.
Looking and looking I found several places. The first one is Fat Muffin, quite similarly to 99design, here the companies can put his information and different persons design the advertising. His slogan is: Bake up the biggest designs AND WIN… pretty creative and fun! Right now the membership for this place is restricted, is not accepting new members. The only way of being part is if some member sends to you an invitation or if you write to them (Fat Muffin) and demonstrates them that you have creativity. I think can be handy, but is also silly how they made it exclusive! Isn’t better, more people more collaborate = better?
In the culinary side, I found two: Allrecipes and Innovate with Kraft. Of Allrecipes, I am not sure completely but I think that it is Crowdsourcing because the users there are those who add the recipes, they exchange recipes, they suggest and give ideas, they qualify places where to eat, they upload photos, between others. It is useful, at least for me. I love this place.
The other one is Innovate with Kraft there you can suggest new products, modifications, packaging and can share also recipes. You submit your designs (agree with the terms and filling the forms) and approximately in 8 weeks Kraft answers you. The interesting thing of this is that if your idea is good and they want to use it, it is possible to negotiate compensation or they buy the license from you, so here you do not lose. Not only you do it for the love that you have Kraft, but also if usually you have good ideas take advantage of that!
In addition to these two I found in the way: Digg and OpenStreetMap (where you can see, contribute and edit streets about the world)
Does SecondLife is consider a Crowdsourcing?
