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New York Times reported that Wikipedia is considering moving away from its free and open editing system to a method that delays changes from appearing on the site until an authorized user has verified them. It's called "flagged revisions".

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Anyone hoping to build a solid twitter client should steal ideas from this crowdsourced Tweetdeck feedback forum!

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The Sheep Market is a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Each worker was paid $.02 (US) to "draw a sheep facing left".

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A simple multi-rate language translation that human power. Quick, cheap and easy.

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Via Howard Rheingold, HP's Social Computing Lab focuses on methods for harvesting the collective intelligence of groups of people in order to realize greater value from the interaction between users and information. Their research includes collective inte

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Similar to Google's Image Labeller game, but for tagging video. VideoTagGame is a new multi-player video game that helps to investigate tagging for streamed video. The goal is to explore the quality of streamed video tagging mechanisms, to research the ab

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As blogger Tim Mallon put it, "I started to see and (sic) ugly side to Twitter, far from being a crowd-sourced version of the news it was actually an incoherent, rumour-fueled mob operating in a mad echo chamber of tweets, re-tweets and re-re-tweets.

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Blind test system that finds you best prices based on previous lowest price user searches.

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Egoboo is a colloquial expression for the pleasure received from public recognition of voluntary work. The term originated in science fiction fandom, originally simply used to describe the "ego boost" someone feels on seeing their name in print. As a reli

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One of my favorite China Cyberculture blogs gets reviewed on Danwei. ChinaSMACK does a great service telling stories from the underbelly of China's Internet forums (aka BBS).

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Timothy explains why the "free rider" issue doesn't apply to online creations. There's the fame bit, and more.

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Markets exist to convert good information into profitable investments. And, in their deep agnosticism, they also exist to allow false information to create quick profits. During that brief window, false information may in fact be easier to exploit — it sh

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italki.com is where you can find everything you need to learn a language. italki is a social network and an online resource for learning foreign languages. Made in China. ;)

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Another social predictor / trending site where users vote / adopt ideas. Graphed over time.

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HEYA is the Japanese word for "room" and Toyota has opened the door to an online space where creative people can connect, communicate and collaborate on projects with each other and with Toyota.

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Great overview of the history of problem-solving crowdsourcing cases, with concrete (literally) examples.

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Blessinz of teh Ceiling Cat be apwn yu, srsly. This is the lolcat Bible Translation Project, a project dedicated to translating the entire Bible into lolspeak. The Project started in July of 2007 and so far we have 61% of the Bible translated!

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Ori Brafman looks at why perfectly rational people make irrational decisions. For example, why would the head of safety at a major airline ignore all protocols and take off without tower clearance-- a critical error which cost more than 500 lives?

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LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

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James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone, using Twitter.

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