ace off's List: COLLABORATION

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   The Clean Energy Project – Part of IBM’s World Community Grid
• Old Weather – Read old navy logbooks and digitize
• A talent for reading handwriting is required.
  
• Many of these projects can be found at the excellent database for citizen science projectsscienceforcitizens.net.
• Many feature some kind of participation-based points system for fun and to encourage some friendly competition
• And they can also be a great way to meet people

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• Human Computing - Distributed Thinking - new age of Citizen Science 

   

   

   

   
• This new movement in science, called “citizen science,” allows non-specialist volunteers to participate in global research.
• The marriage of distributed computing techniques with citizen science represents a potential revolution. It gives scientists access to more resources and makes “cybercitizens” participants in the research process
• The BOINC webpages point to nearly 50 projects, coming many domains including climate change, astrophysics, earthquake monitoring, epidemiology and searches for extraterrestrial life.
• OINC’s volunteers, number about a third of a million people,
• World Community Grid and EDGeS. World Community Grid, sponsored by IBM, with nearly half a million members, collects humanitarian and medical applications such as Nutritious Rice for the World and FightAIDS@home.
  
• Human computing – distributed thinking
   
   An intriguing sub-variety of volunteer projects call for “volunteer thinking.” T
• umbrella of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre,
• partnership of the University of Geneva, the UN Institute for Training and Research and CERN, Europe’s center for physics research, to help regional authorities, humanitarian workers and scientists.
• Specialized researchers and volunteer citizens can now collaborate on some of the world’s most serious problems

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• 100m in total gross retail sales of all Moshi Monsters-related products in 2011.
• At the moment it's around scaling the development teams, and all of the development processes,
• focused on putting as many new features and products out as possible.
• going from a one-product company to multiple products.
• we've gone from a web company to a games company, and now we've become a kind of toy, entertainment, games, online media company.
• the next big thing is still just the industry disrupting every industry that hasn't already been disrupted.
• deep analytics, deep insights and big data
• They're the best developers and they love developing stuff so, in hindsight, why would you get your absolute best engineers and take them away from building games and make them manag

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• • METANGO  OPEN INNOVATION NETWORK 
    SIMILAR
    YOU ONLY PAY FOR SUCCESS ----

• BuddyPress is a plugin for the WordPress blogging platform
• enhances your standard WordPress blog
• customizable member profiles, blogs, a discussion forum, photo galleries and videos
• shared calendar
• track group activities and events
• activity streams, file sharing and private messaging
• assign your social network a unique domain name for a small fee.
• roup by making it public, private or restrict the access to selected people. Basic features of BlastGroups are: member profiles, blog, photo sharing, video sharing, discussion forum and shared calendar to manage group activities and events
• file-sharing, activity streams, private messaging and audio sharing
• run your own ads and other advanced features like adding widgets to your website and using live audio / video chat. Personal and group blogs, each member has a wall where people can comment and post media, photo and video sharing capabilities, customizable member profiles, discussion forums and shared calendars to keep track of group events.
• activity streams, file sharing, permission controls, readily-available templates, API, Facebook and Twitter integration, email notifications,
• • shared calendar file and phone REMINDERs good for BAND or writing projects...AMAC 
• blog, discussion forum and customizable member profiles.
• photo galleries, photo tagging, private messaging, readily-available templates, real-time alerts, activity streams, chat and even more
• No shared calendar is available.
• completely free to use.
• shared calendars, file and photo archives and an automatic event remainders
• No forum discussion, video, blogs or member profiles are available.
• private or public group to share information, events, and discuss with your members around a topic of your choice, completely free of charge.
• photo-sharing, discussion forum and shared calendar
• file sharing, permission controls, polls and a facility to handle paid subscriptions and payments
• No member profiles, blogs nor video sharing are available.
• a free alternative that you can download and install on your own web server.
• member profiles, blogs, discussion forum, photo gallery and video gallery.
• A shared calendar
• private messaging, file sharing, the ability to create and run a wiki, permission controls social bookmarking, activity streams
• free social network. Blogs, video sharing, photo galleries, forum discussion, shared calendars and member profiles are all standard features of Mixxt.
• Advanced features include: file sharing, permission controls, readily-available templates, wiki, group email, and much more.
• Mixxt also offers the Mixxt Importer that allows you to import most of the data of your existing Ning community.
• Blogs, video sharing, photo galleries, forum discussion, shared calendars and member profiles
• Facebook integration, activity streams, readily-available templates, group email, analytics and more. And if you are willing to spend a few bucks for a premium plan (starting at $49.95/year), Webs also allows you to go ads-free and have more space to share your media.

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