The Myth of Crowdsourcing - Forbes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 Dec 09
  

  Alex Ko

  collective-intelligence related

• 12 Oct 09
  

  Arnault Coulet

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  Jimmy Breeze

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• 01 Oct 09
  

  Miguel Membrado

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  Jeremy Rudy

  other perspective on crowdsourcing... don't forget innovation still comes from individuals Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2F2009%2F09%2F28%2Fcrowdsourcing-enterprise-innovation-technology-cio-network-jargonspy.ht

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  • The notion of crowds creating solutions appeals to our desire to believe that working together we can do anything, but in terms of innovation it is just ridiculous.
  • He said that the vast majority are the product of a motivated individual.
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  • • A lot of wishful thinkers love to put forth the notion that all large software companies should be quaking in their boots because a crowd of open-source developers is ready to eat their lunch and create software for any purpose.
    • In fact, most open-source projects are the product of one obsessed individual who wrote the software to meet his own needs.
    • Increasingly, what is offered as open source is simply commercial software using open source as a marketing technique.
    • For most of the contest, individuals toiled to figure out a solution. At the end, a consortium was formed.
    • What bugs me is that misplaced faith in the crowd is a blow to the image of the heroic inventor. We need to nurture and fund inventors and give them time to explore, play and fail. A false idea of the crowd reduces the motivation for this investment, with the supposition that companies can tap the minds of inventors on the cheap.
    • Does crowdsourcing exist as it is popularly conceived? Yes, it does, but it doesn't have anything to do with innovation.
    • Karim R. Lakhani, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, calls what most people refer to as crowdsourcing "broadcast search."
    • I like the term virtuoso search better. Whatever term we use, let's not call it crowdsourcing and pretend that 10,000 average Joes invent better products than Steve Jobs.
• 30 Sep 09
  

  Ross Gardler

  There is no crowd in crowdsourcing. There are only virtuosos, usually uniquely talented, highly trained people who have worked for decades in a field.

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• 29 Sep 09
  

  Shrutarshi Basu

  There is no crowd in crowdsourcing. There are only virtuosos, usually uniquely talented, highly trained people who have worked for decades in a field. Frequently, these innovators have been funded through failure after failure. From their fervent brains spring new ideas. The crowd has nothing to do with it. The crowd solves nothing, creates nothing.

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  Marian Wirth

  "Crowds don't innovate--individuals do. "

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