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23 Nov 09

Link by Link - I.B.M. Uses Employee-Sourcing for Translation Tool, n.Fluent - NYTimes.com

  • At I.B.M., a team of nearly 100, including mathematicians and software developers, is working on a project to create an automatic translation tool, so-called machine translation, that has the speed and accuracy to be used in instant-messaging between speakers of two different languages.
  • The project, called n.Fluent, is intended to teach the computer terminology that is specific to I.B.M.’s businesses, and, more significantly, allow the computer to learn what it has been doing wrong. To that end, the company is extracting and organizing contributions from I.B.M.’s 400,000-member work force spread across more than 170 countries, adding a human touch to the project.
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10 Nov 09

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    Founders: Andrew Hessel,
    Jayson Tymko, John Carlson

    Incorporated: March 21, 2009

    Structure: Cooperative

    Head Office: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Mission: Revolutionize breast cancer drug development

    How: Open source synthetic biology

    Goal: Clinical use of first therapeutic in 24-36 months

    Ownership: Members

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03 Nov 09

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  • Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers are currently writing a book that focuses on a new, emerging economy they describe as 'Collaborative Consumption. This occurs when people collaborate together through organized sharing, bartering, trading, renting, swapping and collectives to get the same pleasures of ownership with reduced personal cost and burden, and lower environmental impact.  
01 Nov 09

Shareable: Learn About Us

  • Shareable tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects that are bringing a shareable world to life. And share tools and tips to help you make a shareable world real in your life.
  • In a shareable world, things like car sharing, community gardening, and cohousing bring us together, make life more fun, and free up time and money for the important things in life.  When we share, not only is a better life possible, but so is a better world.  
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25 Oct 09

Wikia/HP Tie-Up Makes Magazine Publishers Of Us All | Epicenter | Wired.com

  • HP’s MagCloud initiative is not with Wikipedia, the massive non-profit online encyclopedia, but with for-profit Wikia, a smaller collection of wikis on mostly contemporary subjects like entertainment, gaming and food. The ever-helpful Wales makes his case by noting that, according to Quantcast, Wikia Recipes had considerably more traffic than the now-dormant Gourmet magazine site.
  • HP itself says that the new technology could allow anyone “to publish a glossy, full-color magazine for friends, the coffee table or mass distribution” and asserts that there is a demand for “Wikia’s passionate communities of readers … to enjoy information on their favorite bands, hobbies, comic books and more in a tangible print format that is both cost-effective and environmentally friendly.”
24 Oct 09

"Designing Obama," a Few Dollars at a Time | techPresident

  • Reflections upon the Obama campaign's design work? A crowdsourced fundraising effort? Total techPres bait, but Obama campaign design director Scott Thomas is involved in an intriguing quest. Wanting to chronicle the art and design that both was created by the Obama for America campaign and developed organically by supporters, but to put out a book with considerable production values, Thomas decided to avoid traditional publisher, go DIY, and fundraise himself for the production of Designing Obama -- using Kickstarter, what Thomas calls an "Obama-like fundraising model."
  • Think few people would prepay $10 for a digital version, or $50 or more for a print version of a book they haven't seen yet? With 13 days to go, 883 backers have contributed $57,000 of the $65,000 target Thomas set for the first run of the book.
12 Oct 09

Inhabitat » Crowd-Sourced Initiatives to Create a More Livable New York City

  • City governance and open-source programming never seemed like a likely marriage. However, emerging initiatives have been working towards it, and have received a boost of popular support through Obama’s call for open government. When NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg launched the Big Apps competition this past June, he invited individuals and groups to program applications that make government data sets accessible to the public — solidifying that technology can contribute to improved quality of life. Applications created in response to Bloomberg’s decisions will join the crowd-sourced initiatives that already exist in New York City, and already explore methods that can offer residents not only information, but a place to gain a sense of community, to exchange ideas and to visualize space digitally.
  • One of the great joys of New York City is the distinct character of each neighborhood. However, many would argue that economic development has led to the loss of some of neighborhoods’ historical and cultural value. Tom Lowenhaupt, founder of non-profit Connecting.nyc Inc., believes that the underlying problem is that all neighborhoods suffer from “civic media,” or a way to effectively communicate. Connecting.nyc seeks to grant neighborhoods an online gathering place with the creation of a .nyc top-level domain (TLD) exclusively for the use of New York City. While the organization argues that local business would benefit from the unique TLD, Lowenhaupt is mostly concerned with the community engagement possibilities of the domain-name change. He is spearheading an effort called dotNeighborhoods, envisioning separate websites for each neighborhood, where maps, forums, calendars, and civic-oriented applications would be available for perusing and updating by community members. As a method for facilitating dialogue and providing information, the websites will strive to offer the same communal glue as a local coffee shop or park.
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Museum 2.0: Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

    • In the contributory model, visitors are solicited to provide limited and specified objects, actions, or ideas to an institutionally-controlled process.
    • In the collaborative model, visitors are invited to serve as active partners in the creation of an institutional project which is originated and ultimately controlled by the institution.
    • In the co-creation model, visitors and the institution work together from the beginning to define the project's goals and to generate the program or exhibit based on community interests.
    • I would add a fourth model, tentatively called co-option. In the co-option model, the institution turns over a portion of its facilities and resources to support programs developed and implemented by external public groups.
11 Oct 09

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Combining open innovation and crowdsourcing? : crisscrossed blog

several interesting initiatives involving crowds

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10 Oct 09

Startup capital: Completing the circuit | poweredByProfit | Canadian Business Online

  • “The biggest problem since the dot-com boom is that entrepreneurs have needed less and less capital to launch their businesses, so VCs are out,” explains VenCorps co-founder Sean Wise of Wise Mentor Capital, a Toronto-based investor and advisor to startups. “And while angels have risen to the challenge to fill that financing gap, they have a different problem in that there’s no efficient way for them to syndicate.”
  • At the heart of VenCorps is a monthly competition in which startups vie for funding, but thousands of community members — rather than a handful of investors — act as the judges. (Anyone can join VenCorps, free of charge.) Members earn points every time they comment about a company’s business plan or vote for or against it moving into a final round of judging. Finalists are determined using a weighted scoring system that assigns greater influence to the votes of senior members, such as VCs. In the next round, members wager their points on their favourites; the company assigned the most points wins. Pick the winner and you get more points in return; be the winner and you get 50,000 points plus $50,000.
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