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Aug 10

The Power of Crowdsourcing [INFOGRAPHIC]

Companies around the world are adopting crowdsourcing techniques to develop their business. Here are a few great examples.

…A number of these aren’t crowdsourcing examples, just simple surveys and market research. Gathering people’s opinions or suggestions isn’t crowdsourcing. The White House, Mountain Dew, HTC, TechCrunch, etc. aren’t examples of crowdsourcing.
Among those that ARE crowdsourcing examples:
Threadless: Much like a democratic vote, all a contributor needs is a sizable social network to support him or her, and the scales will be quickly tipped in their favor, whether or not those voters will actually buy the shirt or not. This happened in the past on a similar shirt site (Design By Humans), when one of the contestants was a member of a specific racial minority. He won the $10,000. A similar event can happen with an organized effort by unscrupulous groups. The votes cost nothing after all, and if they stand to win $10,000, it would be ridicolously easy for them to manipulate the voting process. If captchas can be broken through porn baits, free votes would be child’s play. This is the internet after all.
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Jul 10

$355 A Week Is Tough, But It’s Even Harder Without It…

Debra Rousey doesn’t want to get an unemployment check every week.

…Debra Rousey doesn’t want to get an unemployment check every week. She’d much rather get a paycheck, as she used to back in November, before she lost her job as an assistant bank manager. But now her unemployment benefits have ended, and Congress is deadlocked about extending them for her and more than 2 million other Americans. And she says she needs the money just to keep the lights on and a roof over her family’s heads. “Weekly, I’ve been getting $355,” Rousey tells NPR’s Lynn Neary. That’s a little over $18,000 a year. Rousey used to make $41,000 annually at the bank. She says, despite what people think, unemployment benefits are not a handout. “I’d rather get three times that amount of money in a paycheck every week,” she says. But Rousey needs the benefits until she finds another job. It’s been more than two weeks since the checks stopped. Even when she was getting those checks, Rousey needed help from family to keep up with expenses. “My rent’s overdue. All of my utilities are overdue,” she says….

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Jul 10

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May 10

EU Ministers Working On Euro Rescue Plan

Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado said the ministers are determined to safeguard the currency used by 16 of the EU’s 27 member states, which has come under increasing pressure since the financial meltdown of one of its members, Greece.

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May 10

Maybe It Wasn’t Just Greece…

In the span of a few minutes this afternoon, the Dow lost nearly 1000 points, then gained most of it back. There were lots of reports saying that fears about Greece triggered the sell-off.

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In the span of a few minutes this afternoon, the Dow lost nearly 1000 points, then gained most of it back. There were lots of reports saying that fears about Greece triggered the sell-off.

But mistakes by traders or glitches in computerized trading systems may have played a role as well.

The WSJ reports that a trader may have accidentally placed an order to sell $16 billion in futures tied to stock indexes, when he meant to place the order for $16 million.

And there were “a number of erroneous trades” during the minutes when the market was plunging, a spokesman for the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange told Bloomberg.

The FT’s Alphaville blog points out that Procter & Gamble shares fell by more than 20 percent — about three times as much as the Dow — before regaining almost all of the ground it lost, and says the decline may have been related to a “technical screw up.” And Barron’s notes that shares in Accenture — which opened and closed the day above $41 per share –…

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Apr 10

Get Ready For Outdoor Camping With Outdoor Gear

Think Spring! Get ready for backpacking with Vargo titanium gear!

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Apr 10

CEO’s Salary Grew While Mine Safety Suffered

Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship nearly doubled his multi-million dollar compensation package during the years federal regulators grew increasingly alarmed about safety at the company’s coal mines.

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Mar 10

Top Party School States Have the Highest Health Care Costs

7 of the Top 10 Party Schools are found in states with the worst health care coverage. Does insane partying in early adulthood create lifelong habits or addictions which strain the health care system?

…Health Care Cost Per Individual: $2,782
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Well, the parties are and so are the health care costs. The University of Texas at Austin is the 7th biggest party school in the US. The Long Horns also rank as the 7th biggest pot smoking campus, the 12th biggest beer drinking school, and the 4th biggest hard alcohol shooting student body in the nation. A few nights in Austin and you may not be able to spell Go Horns! But that won’t get you out of paying your emergency room bill if you party too hard.
No. 4 West Virginia

Party School Rank: 6th in the US
Health Care Rank: 8th hardest to get in the US
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Mar 10

We Bought A Toxic Asset; You Can Watch It Die

Remember those complicated bonds full of home mortgages? The ones that almost brought down the economy? A team of reporters with NPR’s Planet Money used $1,000 of their own cash to buy a tiny piece of one — and plan to track it until it dies.

…cheap.”Tracking Our Toxic AssetInteractive: Tracking Our Toxic AssetSolberg starts searching for a bond we might want to buy. And that searching looks a lot like checking your e-mail. Brokers keep sending him announcements about which toxic assets are for sale today. One says: “Cheaper!” Another says: “Super senior steal!”Around lunchtime, Solberg finds a bond he likes for us. It’s called an Option One Mortgage Loan Trust, or OOMLT (pronounced om-let). Solberg thinks we should offer to buy the bond for “half a cent” on the dollar. That means that, for every $1,000 of the bond’s original value, we’ll offer $5.But it turns out the guy who’s selling the bond wants 17 or 18 cents on the dollar more than 30 times what we bid. Solberg says these kind of huge spreads are pretty common in the toxic asset business. People just radically disagree about what things are worth.Do You Own Part Of Our Toxic Asset? We’d like to meet some of our partners in the pages of this gigantic financial transaction. If you bought a…

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Jan 10

Social Media Marketing: How Pepsi Got It Right

Social media marketing campaigns are proving to be goldmines rich with customer engagement and insight that companies wouldn’t likely have otherwise.

…As a leading participant in Dew Labs, I can honestly say that the Mountain Dew team is being true to their word here. I have been perpetually skeptical about the attitude of corporate big-wig marketers to the demographics they market to. But in Dew Labs, we the consumers are getting a voice and - most significantly - are being listened and reacted to. I think that this is good marketing in the short term as well as long. This feeling we have been getting of being important and that we posses valuable ideas has created a collection of highly motivated fans who are willing, even excited, to promote Mountain Dew on their own… it truly is an amazing strategy they have used. Check out this blog created by a Dew Labs member (dewlabs.blogspot.com) and there are several Mountain Dew twitter accounts tweeting for Mountain Dew, Dew Labs, and each of the flavors that were entirely initiated by excited fans. Cassie RiceThis looks really similar to what Vitamin Water did. They should at least try to come up with…

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