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The Guardian Gets Serious about Crowdsourcing MP’s Expenses

The Guardian has just launched a Crowdsourced platform to facilitate MP expense reviews by its readers. We all heard about the first experiment to crowdsource a review of MP’s expenses. Now 458,832 pages of documents are getting reviewed by Guardian readers in an unprecedented effort to bust bad usage of taxpayers’ money. 25,000 people got [...]

[ More ] December 22nd, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in blur Group |

Leading Crowdsourced Design Agency Expands

blur Designs, the leading, international Crowdsourced design agency is expanding now that it has nearly 1,000 top designers worldwide. Check them at the all new blur-Designs.com. ‘Need a Designer?’

[ More ] December 22nd, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in blur Designs |

b-uncut Store Rips, Supporting Emerging Artists

The b-uncut Store is doing for the art world what Loudclothing.com does for the music industry (which is why EMI bought them yesterday!). And art lovers are buying in, snapping up the latest contemporary art accessories – t-shirts, posters, coasters, mousepads and more. Here’s a few we like. Go to the b-uncut Store today and [...]

[ More ] December 17th, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in b-uncut |

#uksnow – Crowdsourcing in Action

It’s snowing in London – but the real news is that you can see Crowdsourced live snow updates on a map. Last year, when London got snow the hashtag #uksnow started. Also, @benmarsh had the nifty idea to use the hashtag to crowdsource live updates about snow in the UK. Well it’s back and looks terrific. [...]

[ More ] December 16th, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in crowdsourcing |

blur Marketing Changes How Brands buy Marketing Services

blur Marketing has just launched the all new, dancing and singing blur-Marketing.com. Check in. ‘Need a (marketing) campaign?’

[ More ] December 15th, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in blur Marketing |

Your World in 2020

The year end brings a string of pundit perspectives and tips for 2010. We thought we would look out a bit further and try and describe what your world will look like 10 years from now. Here goes. Its 14th December 2019. We will have found cures for most forms of cancer – oh, and [...]

[ More ] December 14th, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in Uncategorized |

Google Goggles Brings Visual Search to Phones

Google Goggles brings visual search to a (Android) smartphone near you. Use the camera, take a picture and it will automatically bring you relevant search items. Shoot that bottle of wine for details on the winery and vintages. Your favorite artwork for info on the artist. A billboard for the latest promo’s and product details. [...]

[ More ] December 8th, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in crowdsourcing |

Facebook Fan Page Makeover

We redisigned blur Marketing’s Facebook fan page. Here’s how you can improve yours. Use this great article on creating the perfect Facebook Fan page. We followed the step by step guide so check how it looks on our beloved blur Marketing fan page. Using ‘image real estate optimization’ we developed a custom badge for the [...]

[ More ] December 2nd, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in blur Marketing |

The Museum Shop for the Masses

Museum shops at Moma and the Tate do a roaring trade – even in the current climate. People just love having a nifty product with cool art on it. After all who can afford that original Van Gogh these days. The problem is that Museums are hard to get to and only promote dead or [...]

[ More ] December 2nd, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in b-uncut |