The advent of a tablet has not been greeted with such anticipation since biblical times. Yesterday, at 10am in Silicon Valley, eyes from all over the world were on Apple while its boss, Steve Jobs, unveiled the latest, revolutionary Apple gizmo. Apparently, one of the biggest enthusiasts was British actor and comedian Stephen Fry who [...]

A quiet revolution is under way in the art world. One that few expected and most missed. Because it’s on the Web; called b-uncut. It was started in 2007 by a group of contemporary artists, led by Philip Letts, as a new kind of collective. One without borders. One bound by the Web. They’re vision [...]

Following Pepsi another big name is jumping on the Crowdsourcing bandwagon this year: The Grammies. They have developed a series of promotional Crowdsourced videos entitled “We’re All Fans” for the 52nd Grammy Awards on 31st January. Let the crowd do the talking…or in this case the singing…

Steve Jobs will surprise the world on Wednesday and remind us what a bunch of numbies we are for not figuring the real Apple Tablet. Sleek design, wonderful curves and white. It’ll cure all known diseases and includes a couple thousand books. Probably. What do you think the Apple Tablet will be? Crowdsourcing your wildest [...]

Sparxoo, a US research firm focused on innovation and digital strategy, wrote a cool article yesterday on ‘Building the Crowd.’ They talk about 3 leading Crowdsourcing projects including Groupon, Kiva and blur Group. Examples of real businesses building sustainable business models around Crowdsourcing. ‘blur Group takes crowdsourcing to a whole new level — creating powerful [...]

blurGroup.com Version 3 is live! Buyer focused, marketplace drive. Faster than ever. Do you need a Crowd?

The western world is still in crisis. Following the financial tsunami of 2008/9 the West faces another emergency. As the dust settles on the economic meltdown it is becoming clear that not only did we strangle our recent start-ups, but there is no capital around for the new ones. Banks are still not lending to [...]

The past few years have seen huge changes in the television, music, advertising and marketing industries. At blur Media we asked ourselves “How will the publishing and writing industries be affected by all these changes? And what new challenges will be created?” In answer to this we launched www.blur-Media.com blur Media’s offering is simple, from journalists [...]

Tina Brown, over at The Daily Beast, wrote a powerful if somewhat negative article last year about ‘The Gig Economy’. This followed research they did which revealed that nearly a third of Americans do multiple gigs or freelance jobs. It seems that the days of full, dependable, monogamous employment are over – at least for [...]

Sparxoo, a cool US social media blog, published an interview today with Phil at blur Group on the future of Crowdsourcing. Read it here.