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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More and more businesses are hopping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon, often using intermediaries to get instant results. But, like most worthwhile things, it's not quite as easy as it sounds.

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 ...

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 ...

This year, we have analyzed many trends in the luxury industry, pop culture, Gen Y and social entrepreneurship. Among these trends, one of the strongest and most promising is crowdsourcing. We have ...

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 early augmented reality smartphone app prompted hundreds of millions of players to wander into parks, parking lots, and ...

A few years ago I joined a private Facebook group for writers and journalists. The payoffs were immediate: The members were professional and generous with advice, whether I was looking for editors’ ...

In reading the fascinating article by @meharris about the DARPA challenge for reassembling shredded strips of documents, I was struck by how the article concluded by assuming that the failure of the ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...