First up, let's just say that this social media based application just looks...cool! But what does it do? Well, the name is a good indication. Blurtopia that is designed to give you possible answers to the questions you want to ask via your social friends. They are the sort of questions you 'blurt' out to your friends when you are out socializing or maybe you just want someone's opinion of a situation you've been mulling over. You could be trying to find the answer to world peace or whether your local team will win today. It really doesn't matter if ... Read more
Design is such an arbitrary science that it's never easy to get two parties to agree 100% on the way a project should look. When the two parties are the client and designer that can provide problems. When a designer sits down to have a first-up meeting with the client it is to thrash out all the basic details of what needs to be done and how the design should look. But how can both sides have all the criteria in front of them so that both teams are on the same page all the way down the line? Osmosis ... Read more
Around this time of year the media usually serves up their end of year 'best of' offerings where they will list everything from the best films of the year right through to the best anti sexist speech against an opposition leader by a standing PM...and yes, Julia Gillard, you do win that one hands down. But who decides just who is on the list and what order they come in. Generally it's one journalist with an attitude. So Listnerd takes the concept of the list back to the people and lets them decide. This crowd sourcing community application is a ... Read more
With our lifestyle channels now filled with building and home improvement design shows like Grand Designs there has naturally been a swing back towards building and designing your own homes over the last few years. But one of the hardest things to find (and one of the most expensive) is a good architect. CoContest is a architectural design crowd sourcing application that will host design contests to find the best design for your renovation project. You can set the specifications for your project and even set the reward for the winning artist. CoContest is a crowdsourcing platform for all ... Read more
I'm not quite sure of the underlying meaning of an app like Nageshny although I can totally see how it would appeal to some of the more creative thinkers out there. Nageshny could be called a crowd sourcing app and has its origins in the Arab world where it is not quite as easy to get ones point across as it is in less turbulent parts of the world. It considers itself to be a social experiment where users can debate and discuss specific issues and even back their argument up with photographic and video evidence before other members vote ... Read more
Try to ignore it if you like but politics are more a part of all our lives these days than ever before. What Obama and Romney do and say is plastered all over our newspapers, the Internet and TV screens that it's impossible to ignore the issues that come up. So how do you form your opinions as to who is the best candidate and the issues and positions you believe in. Politix is a free news and politics application that delivers polls and crowd sourcing information so you can make the best and most informed decisions about who should ... Read more
The New Appsplit claims that it has a newly improved platform that will change the entire apps industry. Well I don't know about that but it will certainly encourage some new people to get involved. So how will it go about this radical change, you may ask? The idea behind it is to provide a place where you can possibly get budding entrepreneurial types to either fund your brilliant new app idea or buy it off you completely. This free crowd sourcing application is a marketplace for ideas for the next big app where developers and money men can peruse ... Read more
There's always one person in your group of friends who seems to have an opinion on everything. Who's going to win the election? Who's going to win the game? Is Prince Harry really Charles' son? Hang on, how did that get in there? Correctnicity is a crowdsourcing news prediction application that let's you predict the outcome of any number of events to see how accurate they turn out to be. Not only will Correctnicity measure the king or queen of predictions it will also increase your knowledge of whats going on in the world. All of us make predictions ... Read more
Potential! Vifinition Video Dictionary has heaps of it. This video sharing application takes video crowdsourcing in a slightly different direction by redefining the way we perceive words and phrases in our search mechanisms. Rather than relying solely on our tried and tested methods of the search engine, Vifinition turns the video search on its head by relying on the urban dictionary concept of finding interesting videos and adds a great element of fun to it, too. If I said the word fiasco to you - how would you define it as a piece of video art? Vifinition introduces a ... Read more
GreenUnite gives you the opportunity to put your money where your mouth is. Here is a creative crowd sourcing application for the budding entrepreneur who wishes to invest his money in an enterprise that is green in nature and creating products for a more sustainable world. It opens up the pathways for passionate people to suggest new green projects and green thinking entrepreneurs who want to fund them. GreenUnite is a revolutionary crowdfunding and educational platform focused on helping to launch important products, technology and content dedicated to creating a more sustainable world. They connect passionate individuals and organizations ... Read more