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Crowdsourcing a Tune: Rock Band Them Clones Goes Digital for Their Debut Album
Taking cue from this forbidden love affair of the digital and the music, Them Clones – a Delhi based Rock band has decided to use the medium comprehensively to launch their debut album. According to Afaqs, Them Clones have decided to cut their debut album — Love.Hate.Heroes, based completely on votes received on its official website, www.themclones.com. The band is using a combination of traditional gigs (live performances) and popular social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, to drive traffic to their website.
‘Online Crowd-Sourcing’ Effectively Used By ITC Foods
Wiki explains Crowd-Sourcing as, “Crowd-Sourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry [...]
Google Launches MapMaker In India.. Will Crowdsourcing Strategy Work?
Google has launched its Map Maker services in india which allows users to add or edit geographical features such as roads, businesses, parks, schools, apartment buildings and localities among others in the existing maps. There has always been WikiMapia which follows the crowdsourcing model of street level mapping and there have been quite a few [...]