One of the richest sources
users feed a central database with local information and everybody subsequently benefits by having access to more accurate and timely data. Just got flashed by a red light camera? Enter that information and prevent others from your fate. And next time you hopefully will benefit from it yourself. Companies who offer such services in Germany include:
• Poicon
• Pocketnavigation
• My-POI locally restricted community-built database for points of interest
• Also see: Manager Magazin
There are a growing number of one-time crowdsourcing initiatives. Here are some random picks:
• Crowdsourcing a sail boat design: The German participant in the America’s Cup race hosted a design contest, asking fans to submit designs concepts.
• Crowdsourcing a book on web design: Dr. Web, a popular tekki site, compiles a how-to guide on web design, layout, usability, CSS, AJAX and weblogs, exclusively written by expert readers. Once finished, the book will be published and also be available on the site.
under Markos Moulitsas Zuniga ported over from his popular (leftie) political blog, Daily Kos. If you blog about a team not yet represented here, make yourself known—score a spot on the roster and you get a piece of the ad revenue. Also good: BaseballBlogs.org
Technology
Lifehackermpared to the other choirs, as we went to watch the choirs after us performed.
It ended for the morning and we headed back for school. Didn’t have to go for class so we kind of slacked in the choir room, and went for Sakae Sushi lunch at City Hall. It was a birthday treat for Cindy. MWAHAHS! And I still owe so many guys presents. Sorry… I am so broke now!
After that we went back to get our results, was quite pissed at some people but who cares. Our efforts were not paid off. We got a freaking bronze. Damn! And there’s so much drama when we were going home. We will accept it!
Those from choir,
though our efforts were not paid off,
but lest we know that we are a gold-attitute choir,
so do not be sad,
but happy for ourselves,
and don’t give a damn for what others think.
posted by Light Yagami at 10:34 PM | 0 comments links to this post
Monday, April 09, 2007
It has been long long long.
Aww, what a dead blog. Many spammers were invited to. Crapped-assed people.
Not long ago, there was an exchange for choirs to showcase our song pieces among some 7 schools. And I met my long lost friend! ELYSIA!! She’s still the same old her, as cute.:) but what she said got be thinking, were we very close last time?xD
Last saturday, it was easter, kinda. City Havest Church had a service to celebrate easter, went with some of my choir pals. It was roc
www.lifehacker.com
“Don’t live to geek; geek to live.” This site, one of the latest blogs from Gawker Media (backer of Wonkette, Fleshbot, Gizmodo and a slew of others, including our next pick), dispenses sound tech advice with the understanding that computers can be frustrating, time-sucking monsters that we can’t do without. There’s an invaluable set of links running down the right-hand side of the home page, covering spyware cleaners, spam filters, online photo sharing and more. For the fashion-tech report (Hello Kitty cell phones, desktop fondue) visit PopGadget.
Travel
Gridskipper
www.gridskipper.com
Its mission: to “scour” the web for juicy tidbits on urban travel, nightlife and culture, “with one eye on sophistication and the other on playful debauchery.” Posts point out neighborhoods, restaurants and activities you probably won’t read about in other guides, with a
In order to keep up with the crowdsourcing discussion in Germany, I strongly recommend following the relevant weblogs. A very brief selection (sorry for those I forgot to mention;-) follows. The sites are all in German unless stated otherwise:
• VisualOrgasm-Blog: Extensive coverage of communitysourcing news, by the initiators of Cajong and various other creative crowdsourcing projects.
• Exciting Commerce: One of the most popular blogs that regularly features crowdsourcing projects.
• Best Practice Business Blog: One of the richest sources for everything that’s happening in crowdsourcing.
• Mass Customization and Open Innovation News: An English-language blog by academic researcher/author Dr. Frank Piller. (FRANK RUNS A TOP-NOTCH SITE ON THE OFTEN OVERLAPPING BUT NOT SYNONYMOUS FIELD OF MASS-CUSTOMIZATION