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Manufacturing success: how to use crowdsourcing to enhance innovation and product development
March 7, 2012… with crowdsourcing a while back to find a way to print images onto its Pringles cans. Its search led it to a small Italian bakery that had figured out how to print images onto pastries. P&G licensed the technology and was able to bring its idea to market in a little under a year.
Because crowdsourcing proved successful in this instance, it decided to expand its crowdsourcing efforts. P&G currently relies on outside collaboration for a full 50 percent of its innovations. But …
My advice to Newt: use the crowd
February 9, 2012… State University. Paul Davies and Robert Wagner put forward a paper last year suggesting the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life (SETI) program should be supplemented by scanning the surface of the moon for signs of visitors from another planet. The idea is that any traces left by aliens making a pit stop on the lunar surface would be preserved by the moon’s minimal atmosphere.
The pair proposed that images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) could be categorized by …
Michael S Hart: a man of many words
October 18, 2011 Share As people everywhere continue to mourn the loss of Steve Jobs (mainly by buying yet another iPhone ), spare a thought for another recently departed tech visionary: Michael S Hart .
Like Jobs, Hart was a pioneer amongst geeks. Way back in 1971 (when “the Internet” had a grand total of 100 users) Hart founded Project Gutenberg , a non-profit enterprise to …
MOG: the day the music gamified
October 6, 2011 Share Nowadays, the music business is like a country and western album – there are no happy endings. Today’s young people have grown up listening (legally and illegally) to free music. Most 16-year-olds seem to think unlimited downloads are a basic human right. Sometimes it seems like Apple shareholders are the only ones who make a decent living from the industry anymore.
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Death 2.0: Crowdsourcing the rest of your (after)life
September 22, 2011 Share Years before Twitter and Farmville took over our lives, philosophers were worried that computers were changing the nature of human existence. (Yes, I watched The Matrix again on the weekend.) With the rise of social media, this idea has now gone a step further: can computers change what it means to be dead?
A few weeks ago, while watching TED videos to escape the …
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