Tradiio – Experimenting with Crowds in the Music Industry
This is the story of Tradiio, a music startup that launched as a crowdsourced virtual stock market for emerging artists and later pivoted to become a direct-to-fan crowdfunding platform.
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MShop: what if we crowdsourced mystery shopping?
Mystery shopping is intended to give businesses insights on how customers perceive their stores. However, the current model doesn't use actual customers to conduct the mystery shopping. Surely, with the help of technology and crowdsourcing, we can change that?
Tay: Crowdsourcing a PR Nightmare
“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay.” [1]
TayTweets with Trolls: Microsoft Research’s Painful Lesson in Conversation Crowdsourcing
In March 2016, Microsoft launched Tay, a Twitter bot that could learn from its conversations with others. The experiment quickly unraveled.
Zhihu.com, bridging the gap of growing knowledge sharing demand in China
Zhihu.com a dominated online player in China’s knowledge sharing economy
Quantopian: Crowd Sourcing Hedge Funds
Quantopian harnesses the power of crowds by allowing anyone to contribute quantitative investment strategies through their platform – and get paid for performance.
Vetr: Crowdsourcing Stock Ratings
Can crowds do better than sophisticated analysts when it comes to predicting future stock prices?
Slickdeals – Monetizing frugality
Have you ever bought something online and felt really pleased with yourself, only to find out shortly afterwards that you overpaid by 20%? Suddenly that new pair of shoes you were looking forward to, is now just a constant reminder […]
Transforming Government – Giving some power back to the people!
Utilizing technology, can we do a better job making decisions about the future of our country than our elected officials?
Transforming Governments via Citizensourcing
How cities of Medellin, Colombia and Paris, France, as well as Belgian startup CitizenLab leverage technology to crowdsource solutions to city issues from its own citizens.