First it was mySpace, then Facebook, then Twitter, and now the buzz among the Internet Technology front runners is Foursquare. It’s a simple concept - wherever you happen to be - a restaurant, the beach, a place of interest etc - tag yourself, that you’re there. And let all your contacts (similar to your facebook [...]

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Threadless is one of the oldest crowdsourcing websites starting around 2001, and has a large active community. But how big is the Threadless community?
I spent some time looking at data, and have come up with the following conclusions about the size and growth of the threadless community.
A. The overall number of people in the threadless [...]

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Jeff Howe’s book on crowdsourcing is keeping me spellbound. Just like Threadless and Design by Humans, springleap has become an amazing community of creative people passionate about design. But Jeff’s crowdsourcing book, has introduced me to all the other amazing crowdsourcing projects that are taking place.
Wikipedia is one of my favourite crowdsourcing websites. It defines [...]

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