Earlier this year, eYeka, a crowdsourcing platform and online community of creators that allows companies to leverage crowdsourcing to generate new creative ideas, released a report on the State of ...

If you’re an entrepreneur with a great idea, or leading a company that’s looking for ways to innovate, there may be no better way to gather feedback, acquire funding quickly, or evolve your good idea ...

Sometimes, being a part of a crowd is a good thing. Sometimes, not so much. Crowdsourcing was supposed to be the Big Idea that leveraged the interconnectedness of the Internet. Free information ...

Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea. Definitions and terms vary, but the basic idea is to tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to ...

To fashion an alluring look for its latest pair of DC Shoes, Quiksilver extended far beyond its team of in-house artists. It challenged a worldwide crowd. Entrepreneurs have grown accustomed to ...

Crowdsourcing, by its very name, encourages a comparison to outsourcing. But when Wired first published the article that entered the term into the popular lexicon, it was far from clear whether the ...

In June 2006, Jeff Howe, an editor at Wired, published one of the first major features that documented the newfangled world of crowdsourcing. Back then, the online labor market was still ...

SINGAPORE--As crowdsourcing gains traction, risks also will emerge from companies that exploit the public for their own benefit and questions remain over which is the rightful owner of the resulting ...

Although there are other corporate-sponsored crowdsourcing sites like Innocentive, which recently launched a challenge to contain the Gulf oil spill, and can offer up to $1 million in prizes, Myoo ...

Drafting legislation is a task that typically falls to elected officials, their staff members and attorneys. But an increasing number of state and local lawmakers are turning to online crowdsourcing ...

Crowdsourcing has become an answer for millions looking to pay their medical bills—one-third of all donations on GoFundMe goes towards health-care costs. In the fall of 2018, Vivian* went to her ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) crowdsourcing platform Did You Feel It? (DYFI) rapidly transforms people's earthquake ...