Out Sourcing tasks to a cloud of people?

• semi-AmatEur-s?

• single person, small team, or dispersed hive?

• Wisdom Of Crowds effect, or really just a MarKet?

Network Economy model?

Do Meme Tracker-s count? Citizen Journalism?

• will this kind of thing keep getting done for "free" (Gift Economy)? Or will we need reverse-Micro Payments to [Generation Cash]?

[Jeff Howe]/Wired Mag article

• some RAndD examples

  • [Inno Centive] http://www.innocentive.com/ funded by PharmCo [Eli Lilly]

  • [Your Encore] http://www.yourencore.com uses the Retire Ment crowd

  • [Nine Sigma] http://www.ninesigma.net/

  • [Collaborative Drug Discovery] http://www.collaborativedrug.com/

  • [Consumer Electronics] - [Crowd Spirit] http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/crowdclout.htm http://www.crowdspirit.org/

• Richard Mac Manus on the [HoloTof] Advertis Ing non-agency

• [Ross Dawson] connects this to the [NetFlix] competition

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