Move over, Daily Deals and Flash Sales, “Crowdsourcing” is now the biggest fad in ecommerce. Sites in which members invent, design, curate and market products for the marketplace are gaining in popularity. Three such sites [...]

I was searching the web for ideas, as usual, and as I am searching the web for crowd funding information, I stumbled on GoFundMe. At first I thought it would be just yet another crowd funding [...]

This new model comes with a host of potential pitfalls An effort to build a sleek aluminum charging dock for the iPhone generated fervor online when it was announced last December. The project’s creators raised close to [...]

Crowdsourcing can create an artificial chat partner that’s smarter than Siri-style personal assistants. Personal assistants such as Apple’s Siri may be useful, but they are still far from matching the smarts and conversational skills of [...]

In 1714, the British government held a contest. They offered a large cash prize to anyone who could solve the vexing “longitude problem” — how to determine a ship’s east/west position on the open ocean [...]

It’s one thing to buy a fun new gadget or accessory, another to think up an idea for one, and a whole other thing to bring it to market. Even as actual production is increasingly [...]

Investments ranged from £10 – £8,000. If you weren’t convinced that there was pent up demand for a crowdfunding platform in the UK where anybody can play the role of Dave McClure (I jest, a little), then [...]

The primary goal is to create a complete and up-to-date map of AEDs in Philadelphia   325,000 Americans die each year of sudden cardiac arrest. Some of these deaths could be prevented through the timely [...]

Funding science has always relied on public support.   Traditionally, scientists at research institutions are awarded money from government agencies and sometimes private foundations. The money from government agencies though, such as NSF and NIH [...]

THE Internet is revitalizing an old stalwart in the innovation game: the prize as incentive. Every few weeks, some big new contest arrives. This month, Overstock.com, the online retailer, announced that it would sponsor a competition [...]

CROWDSOURCING A soured economy has prompted a boom in crowdsourcing, but this is a creative, efficient trend that will outlast the recession. Some have predicted that crowdsourcing is the future of the marketing, advertising, and [...]

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been working a lot lately to imagine what Government 2.0 might look like. One of the most inspiring and thought-provoking stories I’ve read recently might not look like a Gov 2.0 [...]