Music blog aggregator HypeMachine turned a scraping hack into a giant platform for music discovery and promotion. Oh, and they built out a streaming music service as well, built on top of content that they don't even host.
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IBM Marketing Gets Tennis Moneyball Rolling
IBM is pioneering advanced data analytics in tennis to show off its innovation and analytics prowess.
Crowdfunding by Betabrand or how an $88 “Poo Emoji Button-Up Shirt” raised 1298% of its funding goal
Betabrand is successfully harnessing the power of the crowd to get and vet apparel ideas. But will its engaged, niche crowdbase stand in the way of further growth?
Lending Club shakes up the loan market
Lending club’s business model is challenging the way we think about loans by leveraging their crowdfunding community to fund loans.
Yik Yak is Crowd-Sourcing Funny
Yik Yak is crushing funny through crowd-sourcing.
Everyone on the Internet is an Expert
As I pen this likely masterpiece, I contemplate two things: (a) why in Heaven’s name was a blog post due on a Saturday night*, and (b) how well is humankind doing in its quest to semantically structure the world’s information? […]
CrowdMed – using crowds for clinical diagnostics
CrowdMed uses the knowledge of thousands of “experts” to solve difficult medical cases
Intrade: Crowdsourced Wisdom?
Intrade leveraged the wisdom of crowds by allowing users to bet on future world events and displaying shockingly accurate predictive power in the process.
Goodbye Cable: One Snap at at Time
How Snapchat is revolutionizing the way we consume media Within the crowds of any event, it has become the norm to see a barrage of cell phones, serving as the second eyes, aggressively capturing the spectacle that is at hand. […]
Summit Powder Mountain
Summit Series has crowdfunded and crowdsourced a new resort and town plan for Powder Mountain in Eden Utah. The Question is to what end?