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

blur Group is becoming the world leader in focused Crowdsourcing with thousands of creative professionals now joining its crowds. Indeed, over a thousand cool, leading creatives join one of blur’s Crowds every month. By the end of 2010 they will have over 15,000 artists, marketers, designers, writers and entrepreneurs. Why is this important? It’s because [...]

So many talented people have joined our Crowds in the last few weeks and months that we thought we should take a few minutes out to publically welcome everyone and remind us what we are trying to achieve together. In short blur Crowds are about the ‘power of many’. With nearly a thousand new members [...]

In 2007 a handful of pioneering artists had an idea. They thought that if they could use the Internet to unite and organize artists from around the world then together they could redefine the concept of art market. You see, they understood that world artists had had enough. Enough of making no money. Enough of [...]

The new blurgroup.com has gone live. Check it – and thanks to everyone for their inputs. Feedback welcome.

blur Group’s crowd of artists at b-uncut keeps breaking new ground. Today it surpassed 10,000 artworks loaded. b-uncut.net, where the artists hang, attracts over 5,500 unique visitors per month and over 40,000 page views making it by far the most ‘active’ artist site on the Web. In the mean time b-uncut.com, aimed at art buyers [...]

While blur Group’s busy preparing for the public launch of its Human Brands programme next week – we celebrate the ultimate ‘Human Brand’ – Michael Jackson. To inspire our crowd members. And promote the individual. Because in the 21st Century individuals, not corporations will drive change.

blur Group uses crowdsourcing to re-architect the creative industries, cutting out both the middle man and middle managers. Collapsing the supply and distribution chain from original content creator to buyer, fan or audience. Constructing next generation creative industry talent and intellectual property marketplaces. Why? Because the middle men and middle managers take too much. The [...]

blur Group is a leader in focused crowdsourcing. Their crowds are tightly managed, highly focused and extremely productive. They manage crowds as virtual organizations. Un-corporations. And as a result their crowds of artists, entrepreneurs, digital marketers, designers and writers act as ‘collectives’ of independents that come together under the blur umbrella to take on their [...]

b-uncut, the leading crowdsourcing platform for artists, today launched a revolutionary artists’ store. It takes the already popular concept of a museum shop to a whole new dimension by offering hundreds of popular consumer goods products such as clothing, housewares, gadgets, cards, posters and more each designed with original art from b-uncut’s crowd of emerging, [...]

blur Group is a leader in crowdsourcing, operating a cluster of crowds that span the creative industries including art, innovation, marketing, design and media. blur Group fuses focused crowdsourcing with social media tools and techniques to differentiate itself in the marketplace. We spent the last few years designing architectures, platforms and processes for premium ‘freelance’ crowds and crowdsourced companies. Our definition [...]

P Diddy spoke with Mashable about his perspective on artists need to develop and control their personal brands on and offline – inc social media. “Before, it was just at live shows, now you have to be able to do a great live show, you have to be able to do a great online interview, [...]

Our life is crowdsourcing – but crowd learders need a home too. Here’s ours.

blur Group’s crowdsourcing platform for the art world has just launched a programme of art tours. Initially to Italy, these tours are for artists and art lovers and set in Rome, Florence and Le Marche. blur Group has spent the last 2 years building a sizable crowd of quality, emerging artists from around the world [...]

blur Designs is busy behind the scenes preparing to launch ‘Human Brands’. After all, why should us humans not design and develop our own brands? Surely branding is not the preserve of corporates alone. And in this new world of endless 15 minutes of fame and one hit wonders pumped through MySpace, Twitter or TechCrunch [...]

The definition of Fairtrade is clear: “Fairtrade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers and workers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system. If fair access to markets under better trade conditions would help them to overcome barriers to development, [...]

Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly accepted term with examples bandied about such as Google using the analysis of Web links to crowdsource their search engine, Wikipedia crowdsourcing the planet to build the largest encyclopedia and Threadless crowdsourcing approaching a million people to design t-shirts. But what is the future of crowdsourcing? Well, we think it’s [...]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/4av2pWhkaVw" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] What is ‘blur’? ‘blur’ is a way of looking at things differently. It is a philosophy and reflection of contemporary times and the future that beckons or betrays. ‘blur’ is the most modern world. ‘blur’ best describes the nature of everything to be and that is. The planet [...]

blur Group recently launched Innovatrs.com, a pioneering Website and online service for entrepreneurs, artists and innovation officers. Innovatrs.com delivers Innovate (TM), one of the world’s first true innovation methodologies and start-up systems, as a Web based service which helps entrepreneurs take ideas to market and beyond, faster and more cost effectively than before. Innovate’s 7 [...]

As blur Group gets more of a following we increasingly get asked why what we are doing is important. It is both a fundamental and complex question to answer. I have spent the last ten years building large communities and marketplaces on the Web – consumer facing, business facing and some that mash both up. [...]

‘How important do you think branding your twitter profile is?’ This was the question asked of me at the latest blur’d Meetup. The answer is obvious, VERY IMPORTANT! Would you have a website or even a business card without your logo & branding applied to it? Of course not. Twitter should be seen as an [...]

blur Group is hosting the first in a series of entrepreneur meetups in London tomorrow night, June 30th. blur’d Meetups are designed for interesting entrepreneurs launching or running somewhat disruptive and innovative ventures. blur’d also lets in select digital directors and innovation officers from large companies. They plan to do monthly, invitation only get togethers in [...]

What is ‘blur’? ‘blur’ is a way of looking at things differently. It is a philosophy and reflection of contemporary times and the future that beckons or betrays. ‘blur’ is the most modern world. The term ‘blur’ was coined by Philip Letts in 2006 to describe his philosophy because it best reflected its essence. For [...]

blur Group is a cluster of companies focused on social media, innovation and the arts. blur Group was founded in 2006 by Philip Letts who had the dream of harnessing social media, crowdsourcing, next generation technology platforms and flexible working patterns to build an entirely new breed of business. blur Group has since pioneered revolutionary working [...]