Tag: Crowdsourcing

Tom Hanks Movie Gets Kickstarter-Style Funding
Tom Hanks is a big enough name that anything he touches nowadays turns to gold. It shouldn't be tough to fund a movie that has Hanks already signed on. Captain Phillips ju...
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Crowd-Sourced Science Actually Works, Shows Study
For a few years now NASA and other scientific researchers have been using the collective power of the internet to help gather data for scientific research. In addition to older pr...
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NASA Crowdsources WISE Data Mining
NASA this week announced a new website, DiskDetective.org. The website allows visitors to help NASA researchers cull through d...
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David Chang: Let’s Raise $6B on Kickstarter and Buy the Redskins
Could the Washington Redskins' name controversy, front office...
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To Keep the Service Free, Duolingo Is Now Powering CNN & BuzzFeed’s Translations
Duolingo is two things, really. It's a language-learning app, for one. But it's also a giant crowdsourced translation hub, as the very students (users) who learn new languages with...
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GE Uses Vine To Complete The World’s Longest Apple Drop
To help celebrate the recent #GravityDay throughout social media, GE enlisted the help of some gravity conscious Vine users. The idea behind the crowdsourced video was to capture t...
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Kickstarter Expanding to Australia and New Zealand ‘Soon’
Kickstarter has announced that it will open up to Australia- and New Zealand-based projects soon. While there is...
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Foursquare Asks Users to Help Make the App More Informative
Foursquare has spent the past year or so making a bunch of alterations to its apps with one clear goal in mind: Foursquare wants to be the go-to place for local search and discover...
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Kickstarter Launching in Canada Later This Summer
Kickstarter has just announced their next international expansion. It'll be Canada, and the crowdfunding site says that they'll open up to Canadian projects "later this summer."...
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Want A New Windows PC? Make Your Friends Pay For It
Windows PCs are expensive. Well, at least the good ones are. Microsoft wants to make it a little easier on the poor college student with a new program called "Chip In."...
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Kickstarter UK Sees 30 Successes in the First Month
On October 31st, Kickstarter finally made good on a promise to open up to UK-bas...
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Kickstarter Finally Goes Live for UK-Based Projects
Back in July, crowdfunding site Kickstarter told everyone that they would soon open up in the UK, allowing the people in the region to launch projects on the site. Earlier this mo...
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Kickstarter Finally Opens Up to UK-Based Projects
Today, crowdfunding site Kickstarter announced that they will finally open up to folks in the UK. Although we k...
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Kickstarter Bans Product Simulations, Forces Project Creators to Outline Risk
You're making an investment on a not-yet-actualized product, and there are plenty of risks involved in this. That's the message that Kickstarter wants to give its product backers....
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