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As I have become more interested in the topic of crowdsourcing (in all its permutations) I’ve collected various resources from the web, including books, websites, articles, etc.

For those that are interested I have created this page where I will add to the list as I come across useful resources.  And please do drop me a line if there are gems I am missing.

Books, Articles, & Blog posts

• The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki
• Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business, by Jeff Howe
• “The Rise of Crowdsourcing“, Wired 14.06
• “Crowdsourcing: Milk the masses for inspiration“, BusinessWeek
• “Crowdsourcing: What it means for innovation“, BusinessWeek
• “What is Crowdsourcing“, BNET

Websites/Blogs

Directories: Links and Resources

• Who’s Crowdsourcing? (via Chaordix): a phenomenal list of resources (helpful in compiling my list).  Tons of companies here, so I will likely not replicate, but rather add to the list
• “Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One“, ReadWriteWeb
• “Top Crowd souring Resources Re-visited“: broken out by category

Blogs/Micro-Blogs

• Chaordix Blog/Chaordix on Twitter (added 9.5.2009)
• Crowdsourcing: Jeff Howe’s blog/Jeff Howe on Twitter (added 9.5.2009)
• Crowdsourcing Directory: a blog and directory by Creative Crowds with lots of great links and stories related to crowdsourcing
• Cambrian House Blog
• FiveThirtyEight: an application of crowdsourcing–aggregates and analyzes multiple polls to predict election outcomes
• Jason Spector/Jason Spector on Twitter (added 8.27.09)
• Mike Martoccia/Mike Martoccia on Twitter (added 9.5.2009)
• uTest Blog /uTest on Twitter (added 9.12.2009)

Prediction Markets

• Intrade: leading prediction market
• IEM (Iowa Electronic Markets): prediction market focusing on global elections
• NewsFutures: preparing for a relaunch in the fall
• Pharmer’s Market: prediction market for drug development (added 11.24.2009)

Miscellaneous (examples, commercial applications, etc.)

• Crowdsourcing Public Record Data: how to update our rickety public records infrastructure through the crowd (added 9.5.2009)
• Crowdsourcing Traffic Data with Google Maps
• Google News Search – Crowdsourcing: a simple search across news, blogs, and websites for recent stories on crowdsourcing
• IBM’s Smart Cities Project: tapping the crowd through prediction markets to determine optimal ideas for creating smart cities (added 9.5.2009)
• Idea Bounty: site that focuses on creatives where prizes or bounties are provided in exchange for design work (added 9.20.2009)
• Ideas While You Sleep: interesting project whereby questions are submitted and then sent out to various ‘idea agents’ around the globe.  Answers and analysis comes back in 24 hours. (added 9.7.2009)
• Quirky.com: submit your product ideas for $99, and if the idea is selected by the crowd Quirky will manufacture and distribute it.
• TopCoder: crowdsourcing software development (added 9.12.2009)
• uTest: a marketplace that crowdsources software testing (added 9.12.2009)
• Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce: solicitation of and voting on ideas for government funding and innovators in government (added 11.24.20009)
• IBM’s n.Fluent Translation Software: crowdsourcing translations by IBM’s 400,000+ employees (added 11.24.2009)
• Crowdsourced Drug Development: collaborative project aimed at reducing wasteful research across pharma companies into dead-end compounds (added 11.24.2009)
• Hunch: Aardvark meets Wikipedia (added 11.24.2009)
• Aardvark: web-based application that allows users to tap into the crowd for quick answers to any question (personal crowdsourcing) (added 11.24.2009)

Last updated 11.24.2009

Disclaimer: Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement by the author.  The list is for informational purposes only.