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Hanukkah Crowd-sourcing Project – COMMENT NOW!

The Leadel Hanukkah Crowd-sourcing project!!! For more info check out www.leadel.net
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The trust Wallet (Crowd-sourcing)

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Knowing what platform configurations and features are (or are not) used is very valuable when determining what your software can assume will be on a platform, and if a particular platform has enough of a market presence to justify porting to. In this talk, I will go over a system that has been created to automatically survey platform data, such as disk space, DRAM, operating system, number and type of processors, supported instruction sets, etc.. I will discuss the client-side data collector and server-side RESTful interface and its (rudimentary) graphing capability of the collected data. From Developer Ignite Phoenix.
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Crowdsourcing New Military Technologies

Crowdsourcing New Military Technologies
We did it through crowdsourcing, and it's a car that could be used, and its data is freely available for people to mod it and go forward.” That's the idea behind a new project between GE Global Research, DARPA, and the Massachusetts Institute of …
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CrowdSourcing Expands Power of Brain Research
Scientists working to understand the biology of brain function — and especially those using brain imaging, a blunt tool — have been badly stalled. But the new work, involving more than 200 scientists, lays out a strategy for breaking the logjam In …
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CrowdFlower Joins Crowdsortium as Premium Member
CrowdFlower, leading labor-on-demand crowdsourcing platform, becomes Crowdsortium Premium Member. (PRWEB) April 12, 2012 Crowdsortium, the first crowdsourcing industry group, is honored to announce CrowdFlower, a leader in enterprise crowdsourcing, …
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Crowdsourcing opera Opera By You awards active community members

Crowdsourcing opera Opera By You awards active community members
During the crowdsourcing project, which has been going on almost two years, over 400 members from around the world have taken part in creating the community opera and thousands of people are following the progress. Now five lucky members have won an …
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Crowdsourcing expands power of brain research
“What's really new here is this movement toward crowd-sourcing brain research,” said Paul Thompson, a professor of neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and senior author of one of the papers. “This is an example of social networking …
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Blog: Would you consider crowdsourcing staff performance feedback?
Recognise This! — You can't have a meaningful discussion about performance, goals, and successes in an environment of fear, dread and anxiety. How do you feel about performance reviews? Personally, I think the annual performance review (as most …
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Movie crowdsourcing company Mofilm taps Audiosocket's indie music licensing …

Movie crowdsourcing company Mofilm taps Audiosocket's indie music licensing
Mofilm is the London-based crowdsourcing agency for aspiring filmmakers, helping to match brands with new movie-making talent. It runs competitions, much in the same way as 99Designs does in the graphic-design space, to give companies a chance to tap …
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7 Hot Stocks on Traders' Radars
Instead, let the crowd do it for you. From hedge funds to individual investors, scores of market participants are turning to social media to figure out which stocks are worth watching. It's a concept that's known as "crowdsourcing", and it uses the …
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Crowd-Powered: Why Doritos Lets Fans Make Its Super Bowl Ads
Crowdsourcing is not a new concept for the world of advertising — focus groups have existed for years, and still do. But crowdsourcing has moved online. The Doritos brand claims that its core mission is to challenge the status quo and hand the power …
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