Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is not entirely new for Google; services such as Google translate, Contributor, Local guide and even Map Maker directly or indirectly sought their users’ assistance for making the product robust. But this time, Google…

Anonymous, the online hacktivist group notorious for its successful cyber-attacks against various big players including the governments and intelligence agencies has declared war against the ISIS in the wake of recent terror attacks in…

“Necessity is the mother of invention” – Old English Proverb The day fire was invented (or discovered?) by human beings, the destiny of the whole human race changed; they understood the meaning of innovation and power and how to use…

Do you remember how couple of months ago the hyped Ubuntu Edge smartphone project failed to take off, as it couldn’t reach the $32 million crowd funding target? Well, many of us have ideas but very few have the resources to get it executed.…

Of all the uses of social media in enterprise context, I was and still am a big fan of using social media for crowdsourcing. There have been numerous incidents where businesses have leveraged crowdsourcing to maximize and in most cases get…

Did you get the subtle connotation that the word Life has for Gamers? No? Read on anyways! We Gamers are a funny bunch. We need instant gratification, and you’d think we would quickly tire of our latest toy and want to move to another…

To me, Alternate Reality Games are a really clever combination of narrative and user generated content that becomes the game itself. Did you just go blank? Take Two. An Alternate Reality Game starts off with a premise.  Let’s take…

Yes, you are reading it right. It indeed is Crowdsourcing and not Outsourcing that can give your business the winning edge. Unfortunately, Crowd Sourcing, a term first coined by Jeff Howe in his article The Rise Of Crowd Sourcing is not as…