Technology makes everyone’s life a whole lot easier. Technology gets you out of bed in the morning, it gets you to work and even entertains you en-route. Technology, in other words, is your friend. Within businesses, technology streamlines processes and automates workflows. All this adds up to massive time-savings – and time, as we all [...]

There are a countless number of technological buzzwords out there which are constantly banded around the internet- and keeping up with them all can be a chore, not to mention bewildering. Some terms are built to last- take Cloud Computing for example. Similarly, the term Crowdsourcing has continued to thrive both as a word and as a strategy.

Has there ever been a more dangerous (not to mention ground-breaking) Crowdsourced venture than Wikileaks? The stakes are high and the risks involved for Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, and the many groups of people attempting to infiltrate data behind security lines, are enormous.

Where were we? Ah, yes, autumn. It’s been a busy few weeks folks. Two London Underground tube strikes, a couple of working briefs with our friends at Paddy Power, a visit from the Pope and we gained a number seven placing in the Campaigns 2010 Agency rankings!

As the finishing line to another month draws ever closer, our blur Group writers continue to bust their gut to give you the latest from the world of Crowdsourcing. From road-trips to London’s 21st century smart-phones, we’ve covered every mile on the long journey to the weekend. Have a great one!

Imagine the scene. You’re stuck on the motorway. Work, the office, the Cloud Computing Solutions and Virtual IT department seem a lifetime away. Suddenly, that  Crowdsourced to-do list you’ve left behind on your desk looks just a tad more enticing.

2010 marks the beginning of the end of Web 2.0. Just a decade since the starting gun was fired on the .com collapse. With the last collapse went billions of dollars of investor money and high profile company flame outs like Boo.com, Excite @home followed by M&A freak shows such as AOL/Time Warner.

Crowdsourcing harnesses the power of collective thinking and doing to solve problems – often big problems. Crowdsourcing and Cloud computing together deliver a new reality of burst-community and burst-computing. The US and UK governments are actively adopting Crowdsourcing to change the way in which citizens comment on and alter laws and regulation.

Last weekend the United States media news group, Journal Register Company, attempted an intriguing experiment involving community Crowdsourcing and the use of free online publishing tools for the production of all their publications.  

Web 2.0 was all about the ‘social revolution’. Broadband, cheap laptops and smartphones allowed the masses to access free or nearly free software to converse and create. It unleashed the social media revolution we now depend on.