Tag Archives: crowdsourcing

PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: August 17, 2012

By Jacob Smith | Published: August 17, 2012

We’ve been on a Blog Roundup hiatus for a few months as we jam full speed ahead on projects in Mississippi, Chattanooga, Erie, Albany, Seattle, Hawaii, Virginia, Arkansas, Denver, and Tennessee, with a healthy dose of conference presentations and training workshops for good measure. But we’re back in the Blog Roundup Saddle … OpenPlans describes [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: February 2, 2012

By Jacob Smith | Published: February 2, 2012

The value of crowd- and group-based thinking has drawn some attention lately. The New York Times ran a guest editorial (“The Rise of Groupthink“) arguing that people are more creative when they are able to work in solitude rather than in groups, a theme covered by the New Yorker as well (you can read the [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: January 18, 2012

By Jacob Smith | Published: January 18, 2012

OpenIdeo is poised to announce the winner of their “restoring vibrancy to cities” crowdsourced challenge, winnowing down an initial list of 331 concepts to a short list of 20 finalists and now to a single winner. YPulse reports on Sesame Street’s new augmented reality app unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. Civic Commons [...]

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Most Exciting Trends in 2012: Big Data, Collaborative Problem Solving

By Ken Snyder | Published: January 11, 2012

Big Data, Big Business 
Decision support systems that take massive data sets from multiple public and private entities and synthesize the data into valuable cross-discipline information for city and regional decision making is clearly becoming big business. Television, online, and magazine ads are populated with ads from IBM, Cisco, and Siemens, to name a few, [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: January 5, 2012

By Jacob Smith | Published: January 5, 2012

TechCrunch reports on a seriously cool new augmented reality application: instant translation of foreign-language text. It’s not hard to imagine how useful a tool like this might be for community decision-making efforts in mixed language communities. Cooltown Studios describes Popularise, an unusual private sector approach to crowdsourcing development plans. I’m not convinced the “long tail” [...]

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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: October 12, 2011

By Jacob Smith | Published: October 12, 2011

Digital Urban posted a video snippet from last month’s Intel Developer Forum featuring Intel CEO Paul Otellini on an idea that is pretty simple even if the technology and processing chops aren’t: create rich 3D models based on millions of user-generated images. This is basically crowd-sourced 3D modeling and it’s very cool. Digital Urban also [...]

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