[Option 2] Glassdoor: Rant about your boss AND help the community
What started as a place for disgruntled employees to share their frustrations with the people upstairs anonymously, quickly became a money-making machine.
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Quirky: A Failed Attempt at Crowdsourcing Inventions
Quirky was a brilliant idea. Why not crowd-source product ideas. Vote on the best ones. And only bring the ones people want to life. Seems foolproof right? Maybe not so much…
[Option 1] SportsMed – Capturing knowledge of global medical community for sport related injuries
SportsMed uses the expertise of global medical and sports enthusiasts’ community to help patients diagnose their problems and undergo the right treatment plan.
Crowdsourcing AI at Drift: Does Analyzing Crowdsourced Information Actually Make Bots Smarter?
The proliferation of chatbots over the last two years has made life easier for some people. But are these bots really learning from their crowdsourced data inputs to make the outcome better for all users?
#KissandTell: Lulu’s Failed Attempt to Crowdsource “Dating Intelligence”
Lulu created a community where five million women were willing to “rate” their dates. In a world where online reviews guide everything from hiring a handyman to picking our pizza, where does the wisdom of crowds cross the line?
Let everybody be a salesman – Amway in China now challenged by WeChat Merchants
Amway succeeded in crowdsourcing without digital technology. When WeChat arrived, it grew way faster and Amway became disrupted.
PatientsLikeMe: Finding Cures for Chronic Diseases
PatientsLikeMe is an online community network where chronic disease patients are able to find other patients with similar demographics and experiences. This data is shared to help support the search toward better chronic disease treatments.
Google’s Chromecast: Masters of Scale
How the Chromecast captured an estimated 22% market share of OTT streaming devices in under three years.
“Most of the smartest people work for somebody else…” Kaggle in the new world of data science
Kaggle’s online data science platform is every software company’s critical new tool
Box: Enterprise cloud content platform
The Box Platform provides enterprise developers with a powerful set of cloud content management APIs