Crowdsourcing Links for the Day

• The latest news from "A Swarm of Angels."

"Anyone currently joined up at A Swarm of Angels has the opportunity to be immortalized in our next film trailer as one of 'The Missing'. We're crowdsourcing and gathering photo's of people in the simplest way we could think of for members to contribute visually to a fake propaganda film which is an open source trailer for The Ravages. Of course, people are also getting more involved in the production etc, too."

• CrowdSpring: Their model allows anyone to post a job for a creative service (logo, web page, etc.) and then choose from designs submitted by crowdSPRING's global community of creatives. Reminds me a bit of TopCoder, but for design work (update: TopCoder has informed me that they have designers in their community who do front end work as well).

And for good measure: The argument against Crowdspring.

• Pixish: Connecting image makers with the buyers. It comes to us from Derek Powazek who I met via Newassignment and Assignment Zero. He continues to do cool things. I hope to speak with him about Spot Us soon.

• David Pogue dreams up a brilliant crowdsourcing project. Hat tip Mark Harmel. "We need somebody to create a Web 2.0 site where we, the masses, can report the signal strengths of our carriers. We’d report dead spots. We’d report where we get five bars. We’d eventually develop an amazing, and amazingly accurate, collaborative map of the United States, color-coded to show the truth about each cell company’s coverage. C’mon, guys. Let’s harness the wisdom of the masses. Let’s change the world. Who’s up for the challenge?"

Comments

[Ross Kimbarovsky]

Hi Jeff - thanks so much for posting a note about crowdSPRING. We were very much inspired by your 2006 Wired article about crowdsourcing and started working on the business that is today, crowdspring.com, literally the same week your article was published. So inspired, that I left a career in law to pursue crowdspring.com full time. So, thanks a bunch (I now get to wear shorts and sandals to work, which is a game changer for me)!

We've created an innovative model to purchase and sell creative services, one that promises to empower millions of creatives around the world and provide a real alternative to the million+ businesses started around the world every MONTH. This model is very disruptive and naturally, as with other disruptive models (Radiohead's recent novel marketing idea in the music industry, for example), there is resistance to it from the establishment. I encourage you and your readers to also read the response I posted today to Andrew Hyde's comment about crowdSPRING (it's in the discussion below Andrew's post) and also to read the comments posted by other users in that discussion.

Ross Kimbarovsky
co-Founder
http://www.crowdspring.com

[carl]

Hey Ross, I think that was David who posted this ;)