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Udemy - online courses submitted by anyone (Academy of You)

Educators (which can be real teachers, wannabe teachers or, well, anyone else) can create their own course(s) and webinars in minutes. Using Udemy’s content platform, they can upload texts, videos and presentations and create structured courses that can be followed by users asynchronously. The site is inherently social, too, as educators can engage and interact with users and subscribers via online discussion boards and more.
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Crowdsource government work « BuzzMachine

Politico reports today that Rupert Murdoch wants to charge the White House $600,000 a year for access to news clips. The White House now pays $100,000 a year to a clipping service and News Corp. want to charge them for access to WSJ news in an apparent bid to make the White House deal directly with its own Factiva.
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Crowd Funded, Torrent Distributed Thriller Challenges Hollywood

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Interested in being part of movie-making history? You can own a frame of a brand new movie for just $1 – and be part of an innovative crowdsourcing venture to boot. A film-making team in Sydney is harnessing the power of online crowds to first raise donations for production and then distribute their full-length horror movie via torrents. If successful, this could offer up a new formula for indie production companies to use to challenge the big Hollywood blockbusters.
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U.S. Government to crowdsource challenges across all agencies

The United States General Services Administration, or GSA, will run government-wide contests on a new prizes-for-solutions platform, in an attempt to spur efficiency while motivating the public to participate in government in a real, concrete way. New York startup ChallengePost beat out seven unnamed competitors for the right to power prize-based crowdsourcing contests for government agencies.
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SircleIt - Group your facebook friends and ask groups questions

lets you group your Facebook contacts into lists of people based on pre- or self-defined categories (e.g. ‘beer buddies’, ‘Giants fans’, ‘male chauvinist pigs’, etc.) and enables you to address your questions or share your problems with those people and those people only, which is especially useful if you wanna get few but relevant answers from your subsets of your social graph, or if it concerns a delicate matter that can’t be thrown out into the open just like that.
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Quirky Raises $6 Million For Social Product Development Platform

Quirky is a platform for product ideas that are born on napkin doodles and in other unorthodox ways. The site then tries to use crowdsourcing to develop the product, by engaging participants in collaborating on every aspect of product creation – from ideation, design, naming, manufacturing, marketing, to sales. It’s like a social network for product development.
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Eliot Spitzer proposes full "open source" review of AIG emails

The three of us, as experienced investigators and prosecutors of financial fraud, cannot answer these questions now. But we know where the answers are. They are in the trove of e-mail messages still backed up on A.I.G. servers, as well as in the key internal accounting documents and financial models generated by A.I.G. during the past decade. Before releasing its regulatory clutches, the government should insist that the company immediately make these materials public. By putting the evidence online, the government could establish a new form of “open source” investigation.
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TechnoBuffalo - Community written tech blog

To encourage users to create sub blogs, TechnoBuffalo offers a full library of training videos that teach them how to effectively run a tech blog. Videos include tutorials on how to find items to review, how to act confident in front of a camera, and more. If videos and content is good, TechnoBuffalo will feature the content on the home page. TechnoBuffalo is monetized through advertising. It was started earlier this year by two journalists; Jon Rettinger and Brandon Miniman. Both Rettinger and Miniman have a strong YouTube presence, and have a high number of subscribers to their channels.
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Fluther: Crowd-Sourced Answers (they just raised $600K)

Using Fluther is pretty straightforward: you visit the site and ask a question, then wait for other members to answer you in real-time (the site offers a reply system similar to FriendFeed’s that lets you view these responses immediately). Whenever you ask a question Fluther reaches out to other members on the site through Email and (optionally) IM alerts, channeling the questions to members it thinks knows the most about the topic.
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Google invests in e-commerce start-up Pixazza

Google is joining a $5.75 million investment round in Pixazza, a start-up that hopes to profit by overlaying photos on the Web with links that let people buy the products in the images. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company is now launching the technology for general use by advertisers, Web publishers, and the network of self-appointed but screened specialists who identify the products in the photos, said Chief Executive Bob Lisbonne. The company is starting with the apparel industry but plans to expand to home design and furnishings, travel, electronics, and sports starting later this year, he said.
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Artist got 6 bucks for Twitter Logo

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The bird on Twitter's home page, familiar to millions, is small, cute and fun, and implies communication and anticipation. One might say it's the perfect graphic for Twitter. Yet the company paid its designer at most $6, without attribution.
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Patients are reviewing doctors online

Some doctors have started fighting back against ugly Internet reviews by asking patients to abide by what are effectively gag orders that bar them from posting negative comments online. Physicians are taking action as online ratings services such as Zagat's and Angie's List grow in popularity and expand their reviews beyond restaurants and plumbers to include medical care.
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