crowd-sourcing

Smartling, a Language Translation Engine for the Web, Raises $10 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 27, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Ever thought that translation on the Web could be better? You’re not alone. Smartling, a New York-based start-up, aims to break down the Web’s language barriers.

Employees Already Crowdsourcing a Myspace History

Kara Swisher in Social on June 29, 2011 at 1:48 pm PT

Apparently, there is no time lag anymore when it comes to telling the stories of epic fail on the Internet. I got an email this afternoon from an anonymous Myspace employee who wrote about an interesting group writing effort on Google Docs called “Real Myspace Stories.”

Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowdsourced Funding Start-Up Has Funding, Too

Peter Kafka in Media on March 17, 2011 at 6:47 pm PT

About $10 million in funding, it turns out. From some pretty high-profile folks, too: Union Square Ventures, Betaworks and lots of angels you’ve heard of. For some reason, the company hasn’t talked about them before. But that’s over now, courtesy of a Wired profile.

EBay Unveils Crowd-Sourced Exclusive Fashion Collection

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 16, 2011 at 12:56 pm PT

For the first time, eBay is letting consumers dictate the contents of the next designer fashion collection that it will sell exclusively online.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Says Company Needs to Unify Its Experience Across Devices

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

In addition, Costolo announced the company will offer crowdsourced translations of the service into Russian, Turkish and Indonesian. Also doing own translation to Portuguese later this year.

Indie Radio God Nic Harcourt Gets a New Gig: Picking Videos for "The Live Buzz"

Peter Kafka in Media on September 28, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

For a certain kind of music fan, Nic Harcourt is a rock star. But the former radio DJ hasn’t had a full-time job picking and playing music in two years. So here’s his new gig: Picking and playing music videos for a new site.

Creating a Magazine Over a Weekend

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 10, 2010 at 9:30 am PT

Creating a magazine from start to finish in two days sounds like an insane, nearly impossible task. But that’s what a group of writers and editors did this weekend to produce the first issue of the appropriately named 48 Hours Magazine–an experimental project that aimed to use the Internet to shake up the way a print magazine is made.

Foursquare Unlocks a Badge for Waze

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 16, 2009 at 3:19 pm PT

Waze, the navigation and traffic-information app, offers something for the driver as well as the gamer, encouraging them to help it map new streets with a Pac Man-style simulation that awards points for taking uncharted routes.

Spot 10 Balloons, Win $40,000

Matthew Rivera, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm PT

If you look up and see red weather balloons this weekend, take note. You’ve unwittingly entered into a social experiment. The Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, launched 10 balloons, each eight feet wide, around the country as part of its “Network Challenge.”