Did you ponder over the origin of the new Rupee symbol? It was not the output of the great creative volcanoes but the creation of a common man through crowdsourcing. India is a vast country with an extremely diverse culture which is difficult to understand. Hence, brands rely on agencies to develop a plan for … Continue reading
New Location-Based Video App Brings Multiple Perspectives of Shared Events to Fastest Growing Mobile Platform Pixorial®, the video service that lets users transform shared experiences into their own personal stories, today introduced worldwide availability of Krowds™ Video for Android. Available now on Google Play, the free app lets people quickly discover, contribute and join in the shared … Continue reading
Kerala section of Institution of Electronics and Electrical Engineers will set up a mechanism to support all-women start-ups in information technology and related technology domains. A team is working to get the first such start-up in the social media space going early next month, says Sarada Jayakrishnan, who heads the Women in Engineering (WiE) initiative … Continue reading
Medeel.com offers a service that matches those in need of surgery with customized care packages based on their medical records. San Francisco’s BetterDoctor platform has already been helping patients find the best health professionals to see them at late notice. Now India-based Medeel.com is offering a service that matches those in need of surgery with customized care packages based … Continue reading
Jakarta-based online design crowdsourcing platform Sribu, which we introduced to you last September, has since grown to a community of 25,000 designers, delivered 135,000 design portfolios and crossed 1 billion Rupiah in payouts to designers on its platform. The company is announcing that it has achieved monthly break even. It is currently also in the market … Continue reading
Bangalore-based Jade Magnet Online Pvt Ltd, which enables businesses to ‘crowdsource’ design projects, has pivoted to a managed outsourcing model from an open platform. The new model does not allow general participation and only experts with relevant skill sets are now eligible for this platform, said Sitashwa Srivastava, co-founder and CEO of Jade Magnet. In the … Continue reading
Creative crowd sourcing company Jade Magnet is pivoting to a managed crowd sourcing model from a contest based crowd sourcing model. As compared to its previous open model, where anyone could post a project and anyone could participate and contest, the managed crowd sourced model is relatively closed. Each project is handled by dedicated virtual teams built … Continue reading
RailYatri.in is a startup that uses crowdsourced information and more to give real-time railway updates. Where has the train reached? Which station? Is it on time? These questions often make you anxious when loved ones are aboard. But, getting answers may not always be possible. Hold onto your horses! Noida-headquartered RailYatri.in now gives a user … Continue reading
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Organisations today are using the crowdsourcing tool to gain insights, ideas and inputs from people with varied experience and from different geographies so that organisations can understand and reach out to their target audience better. In the past few years, business users have powered the explosive growth of crowdsourcing opportunities and more recently crowdsourcing is … Continue reading
