Another darn cool mass collaboration site is Askville http://askville.amazon.com/
You can just start searching around on this and get lost.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
1st Posting
Hi there!
I have been reading Wikinomics and it has been giving me many ideas about how to MAKE MASS COLLABORATION WORK FOR YOU AND I. I thought it would be worthwhile to share my findings so that the knowledge base can grow as a mass collaboration. I was very interested in the different types of ways that an individual or company can solve or get solved their problems through mass collaboration.
I wanted to first generate some links with commentary on various websites where uses can post their challenges, requests, needs or tasks and then hopefully get matched up with people who have the knowledge, capability, and time to solve them. Here is a list that starts with the most mundane in terms of size of task and payment method to massive corporate R&D projects. Please feel free to comment to help make this more usable. I will hope to figure out a way to make even this blog be a dynamic mass collaboration.
Amazon Mechanical Turk(http://www.mturk.com/): This site was primarily made for Artificial Intelligence (AI) type tasks so that software developers could compare their creations to what actual people can do or get completed the things that were too difficult for the AI software to do. It is an interesting concept for getting paid or paying for simple tasks to get completed.
Do My Stuff (http://www.domystuff.com/): This is an interesting site where individuals can outsource their daily chores and tasks such as cleaning, painting, etc. It could be very useful if a wide network of people used it and it was a bit better organized.
ServiceMaster (http://servicemaster.com/): This site is a more formal one than Do My Stuff, but I have found it to be only marginally different and probably worse than a phone book. I was matched with some vendors for a project that one never called me and the other one even though I listed the scope of the project, after coming by essentially told me that my project was too small for his company. Excuse me, then why did you answer my ad. Maybe I had an isolated bad experience, but either way this site feels much more like a phone book.
Guru (http://www.guru.com/): I found this one particularly interesting. This is a site where freelancers of any type can meet with people who need their services. It is organized pretty well.
MFG.com (http://www.mfgquote.com/): This site is awesome. I use it for work all the time and it saves so much time in sourcing parts. It has a great quoting system, rating system, and exchange of information and drawings. Other sites should try and use this one as a model.
Then the ones that Wikinomics recommends:
Innocentive (https://www.innocentive.com/)
9 Sigma (http://www.ninesigma.com/)
I have been reading Wikinomics and it has been giving me many ideas about how to MAKE MASS COLLABORATION WORK FOR YOU AND I. I thought it would be worthwhile to share my findings so that the knowledge base can grow as a mass collaboration. I was very interested in the different types of ways that an individual or company can solve or get solved their problems through mass collaboration.
I wanted to first generate some links with commentary on various websites where uses can post their challenges, requests, needs or tasks and then hopefully get matched up with people who have the knowledge, capability, and time to solve them. Here is a list that starts with the most mundane in terms of size of task and payment method to massive corporate R&D projects. Please feel free to comment to help make this more usable. I will hope to figure out a way to make even this blog be a dynamic mass collaboration.
Amazon Mechanical Turk(http://www.mturk.com/): This site was primarily made for Artificial Intelligence (AI) type tasks so that software developers could compare their creations to what actual people can do or get completed the things that were too difficult for the AI software to do. It is an interesting concept for getting paid or paying for simple tasks to get completed.
Do My Stuff (http://www.domystuff.com/): This is an interesting site where individuals can outsource their daily chores and tasks such as cleaning, painting, etc. It could be very useful if a wide network of people used it and it was a bit better organized.
ServiceMaster (http://servicemaster.com/): This site is a more formal one than Do My Stuff, but I have found it to be only marginally different and probably worse than a phone book. I was matched with some vendors for a project that one never called me and the other one even though I listed the scope of the project, after coming by essentially told me that my project was too small for his company. Excuse me, then why did you answer my ad. Maybe I had an isolated bad experience, but either way this site feels much more like a phone book.
Guru (http://www.guru.com/): I found this one particularly interesting. This is a site where freelancers of any type can meet with people who need their services. It is organized pretty well.
MFG.com (http://www.mfgquote.com/): This site is awesome. I use it for work all the time and it saves so much time in sourcing parts. It has a great quoting system, rating system, and exchange of information and drawings. Other sites should try and use this one as a model.
Then the ones that Wikinomics recommends:
Innocentive (https://www.innocentive.com/)
9 Sigma (http://www.ninesigma.com/)
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