Amazon Studios is trying to disrupt this process right now through crowd sourcing the vetting process.
All parties involved are basically crowd sourcing both feature requests for Apple products and their preliminary development.
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But most companies should focus on crowd sourcing new ideas, refining them through feedback loops and bringing them to market.
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He also says the venture capital industry is changing, via the role of angels and crowd sourcing and incubator, for instance.
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Dubbed "Hagelo, " which translates to "Hey, you thief" the service incorporates scratch cards and crowd sourcing through an internet and mobile phone based application.
"We need to use modern technologies, crowd sourcing, " he said.
Waze instead built it maps through good, old-fashioned crowd sourcing.
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It also got hip with the times, partnering with crowd sourcing pioneer Threadless.com to sell T-shirts from the community of artists and everyday shoppers, who vote on which designs go into production.
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We are made to feel that unless we have a suite of apps, continually Tweet, engage in Facebook conversations, have a fully interactive website, arrange crowd sourcing and flash mobs we are failing as marketers.
What does it mean to say that the power of corporate media has been broken by independent bloggers when, increasingly, those corporations are crowd sourcing content from bloggers for little or (as is mostly the case) nothing?
Dr. Lin has created a crowd sourcing model where patients and their families can raise funds through social networking, use those funds to sequence a genome using services such as IGS, partner with geneticists willing to help interpret the results, and then make the case to pharmaceutical companies to pursue novel treatments based on solid biological data.
Inevitably, perhaps, when you are crowd-sourcing a magazine, one of the crowd suggested Jeff Howe, who is credited with inventing the term.
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Several emerging organizations use crowd-sourcing principles to turn businesses into drivers of social good.
But the most crucial part of crowd-sourcing, of course, is listening to the crowds.
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More than 30, 000 people donated money within 24 hours of a "crowd-sourcing" campaign being launched.
This Twitter trend on the other hand happened incredibly quickly thanks to trending crowd-sourcing.
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And if you have a general question, crowd-sourcing it to Twitter is a great way to get an answer.
Crowd-sourcing has been a buzzword for some years now, but Zuckerberg wants to narrow that idea to friend-sourcing.
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After he and his girlfriend split in 2006, he harassed her for years, notably by crowd-sourcing his revenge.
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It's called "Flip ahead, " and it uses crowd-sourcing to figure out what page you're most likely to click on next.
The use of crowd-sourcing did mean that not all the ads stuck to the positive messages the government hoped to convey.
The crowd doing the sourcing is not the crowd that constitutes the bulk of the movie-going audience (most of which is overseas).
The efficiency of the DARPA challenge reveals the potential impact of crowd-sourcing and small businesses on advanced manufacturing at the Department of Defense.
Case in point: crowd-sourcing pioneer Kickstarter has helped raise funding to launch over 32, 000 business ventures in the past few years.
The ministry is also working with the American group behind WikiLoot, a not-yet-launched effort to use crowd-sourcing to combat the illicit antiquities trade.
Crowd-sourcing the analytics is quite a smart (and cheap) way for this big data company to create added value from its raw data.
Perhaps the best-known crowd-sourcing website is Kickstarter, an online resource for artists, designers and inventors to ask for donations to fund creative projects.
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Thanks to some impressive Click-style crowd-sourcing, we have a slightly better idea of whether or not we really are all living in the filter bubble.
He added that Twitter would soon release a crowd-sourcing translation service.
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