Quotes About Crowdsourcing

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

No one wants to walk across a crowd-sourced bridge.

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.

Amazon's "Mechanical Turk

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Mintzberg's emergent strategy, Peretti's mullet strategy, crowdsourcing, and field experiments—are really just variations on the same general theme of "measuring and reacting.

Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.

We get our facts from Wiki-something or the other, which at the best of times, is generalised information gathered and submitted by anyone who wishes to!

it turns out that ten thousand amateurs taken on average are usually better at coming up with a workable solution than one expert is. Anybody that's ever heard an unrehearsed crowd sing a familiar melody accurately has witnessed this in action.

Innovation by users tends to be widely distributed rather than concentrated among just a very few very innovative users. As a result, it is important for user-innovators to find ways to combine and leverage their efforts. Users

The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

In essence, what Innocentive does is it provides a platform where you can post a really challenging problem and offer a reward to anybody who can come and provide a solution. And it's been remarkably effective. People get very challenging problems and get solutions to those problems.

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.

businesses, even traditional ones like IBM, use crowdsourcing more and more as a way to get a read on their employees' opinions, to frame a challenge, or to solve a problem. Sometimes they create a competition and award the winner a prize while the company receives the rights to the winning idea.

The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing.

I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices.

With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.