derek powazek @ fowd: crowdsourcing
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Slides from Derek Powazek's talk at Future of Web Design 2008 NYC.TRANSCRIPT
CrowdsourcingDerek Powazek
This is the first slide.
“Crowdsourcing is the act of taking ajob traditionally performed by a
designated agent (usually anemployee) and outsourcing it to anundefined, generally large group ofpeople in the form of an open call.”
– Jeff Howe
“I find the term ‘crowdsourcing’incredibly irritating. Any company
that thinks it’s going to build a site byoutsourcing all the work to its users …
completely misunderstands what itshould be doing.”
– Jimi Wales
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing
Community with a Point
fray.com/geek
fray.com/issue2
Wisdom of CrowdsJames Surowiecki is a genius.
Interface is Everything
newsassignment.net
Avoiding Groupthink
Design for Selfishness
flickr.com/photos/tags/apple/clusters
Scores Create Games
favrd.com
The Heisenberg Problem
flickr.com/explore/interestingness
flickr.com/explore/interestingness
Clear Purpose
Give Good, Get GoodThis is the last slide.
www.powazek.com