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More information on web-based crowdsourcing?

More examples of web-based crowdsourcing might be illuminating as to the sort of solutions that can be generated on such websites. For example, the article "Science by the Masses" (requires subscriber access) describes how crowdsourcing websites can allow a variety of people from different backgrounds who enjoy solving problems to find real-world problems to solve. The article shows how crowdsourcing can be particularly effective for solving problems that have not been solved in a field: people of a different academic or industrial background will often have a different perspective on a problem, allowing them to solve it when the experts in the field of the problem cannot. Web-based crowd-sourcing can allow problems to reach a variety of backgrounds and solve long-outstanding problems. Articles like this one could reveal the powerful effects of crowdsourcing. Sean (talk) 03:25, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Individuals getting more power

Perhaps a paragraph can be added about the individual getting more powerful trough crowdsourcing, and internet-related activities (eg harvesting power of botnet, ...). Can be used for environmental purposes, according to John Arquila. Gathering info from protected sites may also be useful for building gyroscopes, and robotic systems according to Shawn Carpenter (latter useful for certain environmental systems). See Cybercrime documentary (http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/critical-infrastructure/458.html ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.245.186.75 (talk) 12:10, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on what you mean by "power". Participants can get more power in a variety of ways. One perspective of power can be that the participant gets paid for their contributions; like how some participants of Mechanical Olympics were paid for getting first place, or how some businesses pay people to take surveys about their product/service. Power can also be in the form of publicity and getting your name out there, where you might become more socially popular (often more in a virtual sense) because they participated in a crowdsourced project (and say they won first place in mechanical olympics). Another way they can gain "power" is possibly by seeing how their contribution effected the project in a whole, bringing up a sense of accomplishment.Dracothejuggler (talk) 03:14, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Appeal" section

I added the "appeal" section, because there did not seem to be any explanation on the page which explains why people participate in crowdsourcing. Echalhou (talk) 21:34, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Methods of web-based crowdsourcing/examples

While there are examples throughout the document, it would be nice to include something about the current technologies used, their implementation, and their adoption rates. I feel this is important in the Web-based section, even is this is just links to other articles, as some of these articles already exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjblalock (talk • contribs) 00:06, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Early examples

As far as I know, The Internet Movie Database was the first example of a collaborative database on the Internet, and as such I think it merits mentioning Kjetilho (talk) 21:38, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Purely speculation

The line: Grover relates that "maybe just asking a question is too simple. Maybe there has to be more complexity."

doesn't really seem to add anything valuable to the article, and implies that something has to be complex to be useful. The context is relating to a site that ended up the way it did for a variety of more plausible reasons than being 'too simple' an idea. Many other popular sites have flourished using just that concept. The fact that both statements start with "maybe" should be a clue that this is just pure speculation. It's not a very good quote, doesn't add any relevant information, and in fact might confuse readers trying to understand the concept of crowd sourcing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.190.179.59 (talk) 14:03, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge from Ubiquitous human computing

It seems to me that Ubiquitous human computing is just another more fancy name for the same phenomenon. Thoughts? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 16:14, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]