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Kick Mass: Crowdsourcing The Future With Kickstarter

November 11th, 2009

kickstartercomCrowdsourcing has been used in a bunch of different categories.

The idea is that a lot of minds working on a problem are better than just an individual. Everything from Wikipedia to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, the crowd has been utilized as fact checkers, content creators, and idea generators.

It’s been, by no means, a perfect endeavor. For every successful, there’s a flop. Crowdsourcing is a tricky endeavor and to work, it has to break free of the top-down approach that most current businesses mimic.

I like the chances of Kickstarter landing in the category of successful experiments.

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Three Keys To Prepare For Investing 3.0

August 13th, 2009

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Web 3.0 refers to the next technological step that will make the worldwide web more intelligent and more interactive.  Things like crowdsourcing and the semantic web will make searches easier and connections to mounds of information easier.

Robotic tech will also make the net easier to use and more powerful. Shopping bots are one of the ideas, but that’s just a baseline prediction of what could be possible in this brand new web world.

As tech increases for the web, corresponding technology increases and the development of new markets will most certainly create an Investing 3.0. This new market will be smarter and faster.

Here’s what you need to know to master it.

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