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Crowdsourcing site helps publishers find new authors

Posted by  in February 1st 2012  
Back in 2008 we wrote about Authonomy, HarperCollins's Sellaband-like effort to recruit the crowds to help spot the next bestseller. Suggesting the concept may be starting to stick, a new ...
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Location-based messaging for neighbourhoods

Posted by  in January 23rd 2012  
It was back in 2003 that we began covering nethoods, as our sister site calls them, and since then GPS and mobile technologies have greatly increased locally focused possibilities. BlockCh ...
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Wearable patches feature scannable code

Posted by  in January 17th 2012  
There are ever more connections being forged between the online and offline worlds, as we've been noting regularly for years. We've already seen T-shirts printed with scannable QR codes, a ...
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More quick-turnaround editing

Posted by  in January 7th 2012  
When we wrote about Gramlee's while-you-wait editing service back in 2008, we noted that there was still widespread opportunity for other contenders. So it wasn't too surprising recently t ...
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Business books served in bite sizes for e-readers

Posted by  in December 27th 2011  
Whether it's burgers, brownies or popular books, consumers increasingly favour bite-sized portions. That fact apparently hasn't escaped Pearson Education's FT Press, which just launched a ...
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Free e-book streaming and sharing with ad support

Posted by  in July 6th 2011  
Just as ad-supported sites like Pandora and Spotify let music lovers listen to and share their favourite music for free, so Spanish 24symbols is gearing up to do something similar for elect ...
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Collaborative photo books help groups tell stories

Posted by  in July 4th 2011  
Founded on the premise that a group can relate the story of a shared experience better than a single person can, Group Story is a new photo book service that allows groups of consumers who ...
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Site connects performers with fans of classical music

Posted by  in July 3rd 2011  
We've seen myriad sites that aim to connect musical artists with their fans — whether for crowdfunding, for promotion help or for generalized band management, for example. Typically, howe ...
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Curated by moms, an online calendar of kids’ activities

Posted by  in July 1st 2011  
We've seen a few different planners that help families keep track of their kids' activities — either online or off — but the fact remains that finding those activities in the first plac ...
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Five businesses that look to the crowds for content

Posted by  in June 28th 2011  
Tapping the crowd for creative input can provide a double-sided benefit for businesses: first, it unleashes a huge resource of ideas, often at little or no cost. Second, it's a powerful mar ...
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On social entertainment site, HBO rewards TV ‘check-ins’

Posted by  in June 25th 2011  
Consumers going out to a bar or restaurant can already check in via sites like Foursquare to let their friends know where they are. Now, GetGlue aims to bring like-minded capabilities to th ...
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Crowd clout for social and political change

Posted by  in June 24th 2011  
Crowd clout can be used by consumers to achieve goals as mundane as cheaper prices or as profound as social change. Aiming squarely at the latter end of the spectrum, Avaaz is a global onli ...
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Site aggregates offers from ‘deal a day’ providers

Posted by  in June 24th 2011  
Bargain-minded consumers have no shortage of “deal a day” sites to choose from—the challenge now is staying abreast of them all. That means it's time for a little aggregation, which i ...
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Directory lists businesses that are based on sharing and participation

Posted by  in June 23rd 2011  
Regular Springwise readers are already familiar with transumers and the many ways in which they share and exchange goods without ever having to own them. The Mesh Directory is an online net ...
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iPad app turns social content into personalized digital mag

Posted by  in June 20th 2011  
There may now be myriad ways to take online content and repackage it attractively for offline presentation, such as through the News from YOUs Facebook application. Those reading online, ho ...
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A fresh take on online memorials

Posted by  in June 20th 2011  
It may now be possible to add digital data to a traditional cemetery marker, but that's not necessarily the same as creating a full-fledged online memorial. Aiming to enable the latter, 100 ...
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Market researcher taps social media for survey results

Posted by  in June 18th 2011  
The failings of survey panels are nothing if not well-known to market-researchers and clients alike, but still they remain widely used—albeit expensive and slow—tools for collecting dat ...
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Location-based classifieds in 140 characters or less

Posted by  in June 17th 2011  
Thanks to GPS-enabled mobile technologies, neighbours are communicating as never before. Where BlockChalk facilitates geo-tagged messaging in general, Anttenna focuses on creating a new, lo ...
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Open education platform for short university courses

Posted by  in June 17th 2011  
We've already seen a variety of open education initiatives—including, recently, Betterfly and the University of the People—but we couldn't resist sharing news of one more. Peer 2 Peer U ...
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Global search engine for items lost and found, rewards included

Posted by  in June 16th 2011  
Helping consumers around the world locate everything from mislaid car keys to runaway pets, Finnish startup FinderBase is a global social search engine for lost or found belongings, powered ...
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RFID tags used to attach stories to charity shop’s donated wares

Posted by  in June 16th 2011  
Launched at this year's Future Everything digital arts festival in Manchester, RememberMe is a collaborative project between TOTeM (Tales of Things and Electronic Memory) and Oxfam which in ...
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