A £1.6m research project at Lancaster University aims to enable road and rail travelers to share information about their journeys such as the best routes to use to avoid delays. Our Travelis a travel information tool built on social networking, with direct information from transport workers feeding into the system. The aim is to reduce congestion and improve the UK transport system as users find more efficient ways to travel....
The King of Pop may be 6 feet under, but his legacy will live on forever. New from the Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music is the “Behind The Mask” video project, which seeks to crowdsource the artistic contributions of Michael Jackson fans around the world. The project will provide MJ fans with the opportunity to help create a unique, crowdsourced groundbreaking music video for the single “Behind the Mask”....
Social media fundamentally changed the balance of the brand – consumer relationship. Brands try to adapt by leveraging the new communication platforms to form deeper bonds with their customers. The social media openness makes them ideal for making a brand’s customers part of a product’s life cycle through crowdsourcing methods. Crowdsourcing has become highly popular not only as part of marketing campaigns, likeDoritos maker Frito-Lay’s competitionfor its Super Bowl advertising, but also forproduct development, like Rebeca Minkoff’s challenge toPolyvore’s community to redesign the next Morning After Clutch....
According to a report from theCBC, it won’t be long before all Canadians will be able to download and stream faster. In fact, the new national Internet speed targets have set a timeline for this to happen within four years. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission announced on Tuesday that it “expects all Canadians to have access to broadband internet speeds of at least five megabits per second for downloads and one megabit per second for uploads” by 2015....
In a massive study spanning 194 countries and accounting for billions of people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has compiled incredible evidence linking as many as 750,000 deaths per year to overwork. Here’s the scary part:The WHO defines “overwork” as spending more than 55 hours per week on the job. That makes it a very serious issue for employees in industries that experience crunch such as STEM and gaming, and for entrepreneurs who think the key to success is putting in long hours....
