Posted in Ryz, Web 2.0, community site, crowd sourcing, footwear, open sourcing, wisdom of crowds on Sunday, 13 July 2008, 5:29 pm | 2 Comments »
Rock on! I got a pair of this design, “The Creep” by Caveman, in Size 10. A very pleasant and smooth online shopping experience. History being made. Get your pair today, of what will no doubt become collector’s items. Or submit your own design to be voted on by the masses. (For more on Ryz, [...]
Posted in Amazon, Nike, Puma, Ryz, Vanns, Web 2.0, adidas, crowd sourcing, ecommerce, film festival, open sourcing, threadless, wisdom of crowds on Sunday, 6 July 2008, 8:32 am | No Comments »
Ryz, the Portland-based community sourcing Web 2.0 sneaker eCommerce site that I’ve written about before is live in Beta! At least 3 cool designs are available for purchase. These sneaker designs were chosen as winning designs from amongst hundreds submitted by the masses. Going forward, the masses get to vote on the designs. And the [...]
Posted in CNN, Chengdu, China, Sichuan, Web 2.0, citizen journalism, crowd sourcing, earthquake, user-generated content on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 10:32 am | No Comments »
The Barking at the Sun/蜀犬吠日 blog (”Blogging from China, Sichuan, Chengdu. 中国. 四川. 成都” 
has a good post in English by Mark Hiew on “Big media, citizen journalists, and the May 12th earthquake”. Web 2.0 aiding coverage of this terrible tragedy.
Posted in 4K, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, cameras, crowd sourcing on Saturday, 26 April 2008, 11:46 pm | 1 Comment »
Red’s got a great camera, but the same cannot be said for their documentation. So we all forage at reduser.net. Here’s a 5-page guide to all the menus you can access on the Red One camera (by hitting the buttons on the back of the camera, which appear in red on these diagrams). This [...]
Posted in Ryz, Web 2.0, community site, crowd sourcing, design, ecommerce, social networking, wisdom of crowds on Saturday, 19 April 2008, 8:29 pm | 8 Comments »
UPDATE: 3 June 2008: Ryz is running their first footwear design contest. Ryz’s footwear designs are “community-sourced”: would-be designers download a template, fill it in, have their designs voted on, winning designs are actually produced. And winners get US$1,000 for winning design, plus US$1 royalty on each shoe produced. Pretty cool. Deadline is 9 June. [...]
Posted in Anne Thompson, Nicholas Carr, Variety, Web 2.0, World Wide Computer, cinema, cloud computing, crowd sourcing, film criticism, long tail, open sourcing, wisdom of crowds on Friday, 28 March 2008, 10:37 am | 2 Comments »
Ok. So the single book I brought with me to India last week was Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch, which I wrote about 3 weeks ago and now apparently is high on the WSJ Business bestseller list (was high? Oddly, I can’t find it listed there today, so perhaps it just had a hot-selling week. [...]
Posted in Amazon, Brooklyn, Museum, Web 2.0, crowd sourcing, photography, wisdom of crowds on Thursday, 14 February 2008, 10:50 am | No Comments »
My good friend Tracy Collins reports on his blog today that the Brooklyn Museum is trying “crowd curation” for a photography exhibit. Sounds like a cool experiment. It’s called “Click!”, which, cleverly, is sound made by the pushing of both a camera shutter and a mouse, while voting online.
This strikes me as a good use [...]
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