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Crowdsourced Motivation

Crowdsourced Motivation

Jan-22-12 By IdeaConnection
So how well are your New Year’s resolutions holding up? Still popping into the gym five times week? Haven’t touched a cigarette since New Year’s eve? Or did you crumble at the first hurdle and are now back to your old ways?

If you ever find it difficult to stick to a plan or goal that you have set for yourself (whether it’s a resolution or another objective at any time of year) why not let the crowd act as a motivator?
TV Viewer Finds Planet in Crowdsourcing Space Hunt

TV Viewer Finds Planet in Crowdsourcing Space Hunt

Jan-18-12 By IdeaConnection
BBC news is reporting that a UK TV viewer has spotted an unknown world beyond our solar system following a public planet hunting push initiated on a BBC programme.

Chris Holmes, an amateur astronomer from Peterborough detected the planet after logging onto the crowdsourcing website Planethunters.org and by looking through time-lapsed images of stars.
Crowdsource Hunt for Planets in 48 Hours

Crowdsource Hunt for Planets in 48 Hours

Jan-17-12 By IdeaConnection
Venture into deep space from the comfort of your computer with the latest space-themed crowdsource initiative. Members of the public are being asked by the Planethunters website to hunt for planets that could support life.

The site has been up and running for more than a year but to tie in with a BBC series of programmes volunteers are being asked to classify 500,000 targets within the next 48 hours.
Citizen Journalist Website Receives Prestigious Award

Citizen Journalist Website Receives Prestigious Award

Jan-15-12 By IdeaConnection
Congratulations to non-profit organisation Ushahidi for winning the 2012 “Anvil of Freedom” award from Denver University’s Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media.

Since 2007 the citizen-powered website has allowed users to crowdsource information about humanitarian crises to enable individuals and journalists to find out what is going on during emergency situations and to help humanitarian organizations to respond quickly.
Star Trek Inspiration for Latest X Prize Contest

Star Trek Inspiration for Latest X Prize Contest

Jan-13-12 By IdeaConnection
The X Prize Foundation is at it again, firing up imaginations to inspire someone to create a world-beating technological advance.

This time round the call has gone out for the creation of a Star Trek-like medical "tricorder". Whoever succeeds will be able to swell their bank account by $10 million.
Selling Crowdfunding to Financiers

Selling Crowdfunding to Financiers

Jan-12-12 By IdeaConnection
The banks have pulled up their drawbridges and are refusing to lend money, VC funding is more of a mine field and most traditional forms of small business financing have dried up.

So with the world’s finances still in a mess how can entrepreneurs get access to funding streams?

Crowdfunding is one method that is gaining traction and its case will be put to investors at a key conference in New York on January 23rd.
Top Ten Business Ideas for 2012 to Inspire Entrepreneurs

Top Ten Business Ideas for 2012 to Inspire Entrepreneurs

Jan-10-12 By IdeaConnection
We’re already making inroads into 2012 but the predictions for the year ahead are still coming in thick and fast. Springwise, that bible of the most promising business ideas, ventures and concepts has been honing its soothsaying powers to highlight what it considers to be the top ten business ideas for 2012.

The aim of compiling the list is to provide rocket fuel for the mind for entrepreneurs and innovators: “We hope that you’ll find these concepts as inspiring as we do, and that they spark even more innovation in the year to come!”
The World Bank and the Government of Moldova Need Your Help

The World Bank and the Government of Moldova Need Your Help

Jan-08-12 By IdeaConnection
The World Bank has announced that it is partnering with the Government of Moldova to organise a competitive Open Innovation Hackathon focused on the reuse of open data in Moldova.

The aim is ambitious. Though the development of killer apps is a must the priority is to build a high capacity ecosystem around the country’s open data.

“The long-term objectives are not the release of open data or the creation of killer apps, though both are unquestionably valuable. The real goal is to catalyze new partnerships that become long-term producers of viable apps for an Innovation Economy.”
Use Social Media to Select Your Seat Partner on Flights

Use Social Media to Select Your Seat Partner on Flights

Jan-06-12 By IdeaConnection
Airline travel can really suck when you’re stuck next to the kicking kid, the loud bore or the arm rest hog.

Recognising that this can make journeys unbearable for its customers Dutch airline KLM will soon be launching its 'Meet and Seat' service that will enable passengers to choose who they sit next to based on the LinkedIn or Facebook profiles of  their fellow travellers.

The new service will be available to all, but you will only be able to select your in-flight neighbor if the other person has signed up to participate.
Open Innovation backed by UK Government Minister

Open Innovation backed by UK Government Minister

Jan-04-12 By IdeaConnection
In a wide ranging speech on universities, research and innovation UK science minister David Willetts offered strong support for open innovation.

Acknowledging the UK’s reputation for failing to capitalize on many of the great ideas that are generated by its universities the minister outlined areas the government is keen to promote.

“We are reforming IP and backing open innovation in our universities. We are liberating them from the idea that the only measure of their contribution to the wider economy is setting up a tech transfer office and then counting patents."

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