Posts Tagged ‘crowd sourcing’

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by Robin Wauters
Only a handful of blogs picked up on Google’s fresh Translator Toolkit, which the company launched yesterday by means of a blog post, but this new service really deserves a second look, if only because Wikimedia apparently sees the tool as something that could “change the way Wikipedia grows in [...]

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October 14, 2008 - 5:00 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder9 Comments

Since the beginning of Digg’s immense popularity, both as a fun site that brings you fresh crowdsourced news and as a source of traffic for news sites, there was the idea that smaller, more focused, vertical Digg-like sites would be a great alternative to [...]

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October 8, 2008 - 2:36 pm PDT - by David Chen16 Comments

Several weeks ago, Digg made online headlines when it banned several dozen of its users, some of which were among its most highly ranked contributors (including Reg “Zaibatsu” Saddler, who by some metrics was the #3 Digg user of all time). On Digg’s blog, the company explained [...]

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by Michael Arrington on September 25, 2008
Google Moderator launched this evening, a simple tool that helps groups determine which questions should be asked at all hands meetings, conferences, Q&A sessions, etc. The idea is that there are always lots of good questions to ask in a limited period of time, but it’s hard [...]

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by Michael Arrington on September 25, 2008
Google Moderator launched this evening, a simple tool that helps groups determine which questions should be asked at all hands meetings, conferences, Q&A sessions, etc. The idea is that there are always lots of good questions to ask in a limited period of time, but it’s hard [...]

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September 15, 2008 - 8:55 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 7 Comments

Last week, I wrote an editorial entitled “When it Comes to Politics, Don’t Listen to Me.”  It was fairly well recieved, at least by the contingent of Mashable readers who don’t tend to agree with me [...]

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by Leslie Poston 3 Comments

I am all about applications and sites that tap into the power of the lazyweb, and Ask500People definitely falls into that category. We reviewed Ask500People when it launched, and over the past few months since then the company has gotten feedback from users on how to [...]