I’m proud to announce that CrowdSpirit is mentioned as a Crowdsourcing example by Deutsche Telekom within their contest. In fact, Deutsche Telekom is launching a very interesting initiative Called “Deutsche Telekom Interactive TV Award” in order to think about the future of IPTV. Look at the contest and earn up to 1 million €
„Shake it!“ or how Crowd Sourcing is stirring up product development
Openness is good for fresh ideas. For companies, it can also allow the incorporation of resourceful minds from outside a project. This concept has become the principle of Crowd Sourcing and Open Innovation Initiatives. And since outsiders often have a different view than one’s own employees, this can improve a product’s user-friendliness. Even Deutsche Telekom looks to “crowds” for advice.
Once a strategy, necessity forced Open Innovation to become a virtue. Anything new is quickly assimilated in the information age, eliminating the advantage the innovation once offered. So why not turn the tables and profit from the speed of information dissemination by tapping external sources and sharing the results? IBM’s Eclipse Project is one of the best-known examples of competitors participating side-by-side in an Open Innovation Network.
Crowd Sourcing initiatives also adhere to the principle of exploiting the creativity and resourcefulness of a competent external group. Web 2.0 is the perfect tool. Projects such as CrowdSpirit or Fellowforce invite participants to contribute their concepts or evaluate ideas. The result is a constantly changing hit list of ingenuity.
Interactive TV is uniquely suited to this his type of collaboration. Deutsche Telekom would like to see just how this can function with the announcement of the award and gather experiences from the development crowd. It will be interesting to see what emerges.
What kinds of ideas do crowds have? See for yourself – it’s fun. A little tip: our favourite button is way up top and is called “Shake it!”
If you’ve already clicked there, you might find the following suggestions inspiring:
Engadget – New ideas that make the life of an early adopter easier.
Gizmodo – A gadgets blog with plenty of ingredients for a spicy co-existence with and among technology.
A nice film promoting Charles Leadbetter’s new book “We Think”.
Most of us know all this stuff, but it’s nice to see it in a film and the conceptual idea of the shift from “the pyramid” to the “birds nest” is a good one.
I received last week a message that could interest you. Here is the details. Feel free to answer it.
best regards
Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder
The garage inventor is a distinctly American character. But new technologies — from powerful home computers to 3-D printers — are driving down the cost of innovation and giving backyard tinkerers capabilities once reserved for well-funded R&D labs.
Have you, or has someone you know, invented a product at home? Improved upon an existing one?
there is an interesting article today on “les echos” which is describing some interesting initiatives on the “crowdsourcing” world. Crowdspirit has a mention on it. I’d like to thanks Capucine, who wrote this article, for having contacted me. The article is in french.
CrowdSpirit had an article published in “Le Monde” newspaper. This article is in French of course –> CrowdSpirit
Moreover, there is also an interesting article regarding the CrowdSourcing in general.
Best regards Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder
the sheep market site is really incredible, here is the concept : “a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical turk. Each Worker was paid $0.02 US do draw a sheep facing left”
So we have in front of us, a crowdsourcing initiative for drawing sheep !. Here is some figures:
Average time spent drawing each sheep: 105 seconds
Springwise is reporting a new english initiative of the crowdsourcing world : “VIPbandmanager is recruiting 50,000 band managers to propel a band to stardom. For a GBP 20 lifetime fee, which is collected after 50,000 people have signed up, managers get to vote on everything from picking the band’s name to choosing a drummer. After the band has been formed, members will continue to make all the behind-the-scenes decisions and plans that artist managers and record labels make: choosing producers, helping pick tracks, deciding on the band’s image and promotion, organizing a UK tour and, of course, reaching the top of the charts. The latter will be aided by the viral marketing clout of 50,000 fervent fans.“
This initiative is a mix of 2 existing start-up : Sellaband — groups of fans funding bands — and MyFootballClub, the online community that’s gathering 50,000 football fans to buy an English football team.
“OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.” What a brilliant idea !! FIC, which is the manufacturer of that mobile, is a very well known ODM on the consumer electronic world, so few doubt about the quality.
Best regards
Like Zero Assignment, CNN is also proposing its crowdsourcing initiative…so become a “I-Reporter” and send your story, share your thoughts for one of the proposed stories. With the same concept, Zero Assignment already managed to conduct 80 interviews focused on the crowdsourcing world.
