Slashdot Items Tagged "crowdsourcing"

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Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:28PM OpenWLANMap: Free WLAN-Based GPS Replacement
Sunday May 15, 2016 @03:10PM Scientists Crowdfund The Theory of Everything
Thursday December 17, 2015 @06:00PM Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue
Monday November 02, 2015 @01:57AM Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo
Friday October 30, 2015 @06:26PM Twitch Viewers Will Try To Collaboratively Install Arch Linux
Friday October 30, 2015 @06:04PM IMDb Hits 25
Thursday July 16, 2015 @07:13AM Italian Court Throws Out TripAdvisor Fine Over Bad Reviews
Tuesday July 14, 2015 @08:47AM Google To Reopen Maps To User Edits, With an Anti-Abuse Plan
Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:00PM Uber Class-Action Case May Hinge On What the Drivers Want
Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:38AM 8 Yelp Reviewers Hit With $1.2 Million Defamation Suits
Saturday June 27, 2015 @12:06PM 79% of Airbnb Listings In Barcelona Are Illegal
Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:16PM Uber's Rise In China May Be Counterfeit
Tuesday May 12, 2015 @08:25AM Philippines Gives Uber Its First Legal Framework To Operate In Asia
Monday May 11, 2015 @11:35PM Google Shuts Down Map Maker Following Hacks
Thursday April 23, 2015 @03:04PM Virtual Telescope Readied To Image Black Hole's 'Ring of Fire'
Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:14AM Traffic App Waze To Alert L.A. Drivers of Kidnappings and Hit-and-Runs
Friday April 10, 2015 @06:38PM How Flight Tracking Works: a Global Network of Volunteers
Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:33AM As Trade Restrictions Crumble, Airbnb Offers Rooms In Cuba
Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:32AM Uber Sued Over Driver Data Breach, Adding To Legal Woes
Sunday March 08, 2015 @07:12PM Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon
Saturday February 28, 2015 @02:05AM Uber Offers Free Rides To Koreans, Hopes They Won't Report Illegal Drivers
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @02:29PM The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:51AM OpenStreetMap.org Gets Routing
Friday February 06, 2015 @06:41PM Uber Will Add Panic Button and Location/Journey Sharing In India
Monday February 02, 2015 @01:28PM What Happens When the "Sharing Economy" Meets Higher Education
Sunday January 25, 2015 @10:56AM Calif. DMV Back-Pedals On Commercial-Plate Mandate For Ride-Share Drivers
Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:25AM Facebook Will Let You Flag Content As 'False'
Tuesday December 16, 2014 @09:31AM Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents
Sunday December 14, 2014 @03:55PM French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber
Thursday December 04, 2014 @01:24PM A Backhanded Defense of Las Vegas' Taxi Regulation
Saturday November 29, 2014 @11:30AM Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber
Thursday November 27, 2014 @10:51AM Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission
Thursday November 20, 2014 @08:53AM UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online
Saturday November 15, 2014 @05:36PM Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17
Thursday October 30, 2014 @11:38AM CERN Looking For Help Filling In the Gaps In Photo Archive
Thursday October 23, 2014 @02:12PM We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello
Monday October 20, 2014 @01:32PM Barometers In iPhones Mean More Crowdsourcing In Weather Forecasts
Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:52PM Crowdsourced Remake "The Empire Strikes Back Uncut" Now Complete
Tuesday October 07, 2014 @08:55AM Fixing Steam's User Rating Charts
Sunday September 21, 2014 @09:56PM Small Restaurant Out-Maneuvers Yelp In Reviews War
Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:20PM The Fiercest Rivalry In Tech: Uber vs. Lyft
Sunday August 10, 2014 @03:38AM Online Tool Flagged Ebola Outbreak Before Formal WHO Announcement
Tuesday August 05, 2014 @01:18PM Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews
Tuesday July 22, 2014 @08:34AM French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review
Thursday July 10, 2014 @03:08PM How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:04AM Uber Is Now Cheaper Than a New York City Taxi
Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:16AM Wikipedia Forcing Editors To Disclose If They're Paid
Thursday June 12, 2014 @08:08AM Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin
Friday June 06, 2014 @08:32PM Apple Acquires Social Search Engine Spotsetter
Friday June 06, 2014 @07:05PM 'Pop-Up' Bus Service Learns Boston Riders' Rhythms, Creates Routes Accordingly
Friday May 30, 2014 @06:40PM Google Stars Extension For Chrome Leaks: Hands On
Friday May 23, 2014 @05:56PM Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants
Thursday May 08, 2014 @09:08AM In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot
Thursday May 08, 2014 @08:43AM Melbourne Uber Drivers Slapped With $1700 Fines; Service Shuts Down
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @08:48AM Computer Game Reveals 'Space-Time' Neurons In the Eye
Friday April 11, 2014 @08:20PM Crowd Wisdom Better At Predictions Than Top CIA Analysts
Friday March 21, 2014 @06:03PM Spacecraft Returns Seven Particles From Birth of the Solar System
Thursday January 30, 2014 @04:05PM GitHub Launches Bug Bounty Program, Offers Between $100 and $5,000
Tuesday January 28, 2014 @01:31PM Blizzard Releases In-House Design Tools To Starcraft Modders
Sunday January 19, 2014 @01:14PM Building An Uncensorable Course Guide At Yale
Friday January 17, 2014 @07:47PM Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points
Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:27AM Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap
Tuesday December 10, 2013 @09:06AM DARPA Makes Finding Software Flaws Fun
Tuesday November 26, 2013 @10:11AM Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images
Saturday November 02, 2013 @04:47PM Exploiting Tomorrow's Solar Eclipse To Help Understand Sea Levels
Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:15AM What If the "Sharing Economy" Organized a Strike, and Nobody Came?
Saturday October 12, 2013 @10:42AM Fight Bicycle Theft With the Open Source Bike Registry
Wednesday October 09, 2013 @12:25PM Juno Needs Radio Amateurs!
Tuesday September 10, 2013 @12:51PM New X Prize Quest: Sensors To Probe Oceanic Acid Levels
Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:05PM Using Raspberry Pi and iOS App To Catch Rhino Poachers
Friday August 23, 2013 @08:25PM Search For Evi Nemeth Continues
Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:31AM SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers
Tuesday July 23, 2013 @09:29AM How Joel Spolsky Shot Down a Microsoft Patent In 15 Minutes
Tuesday July 16, 2013 @01:35PM Smartphones May Help Reduce Traffic In the Near Future
Tuesday July 16, 2013 @07:54AM Hackaday For Sale, Editors Seek Crowd Funding To Buy It
Thursday July 04, 2013 @02:36PM Can Ride-Sharing Startup Lyft Survive the SoCal Heat?
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:18PM Cell Phones As a Dirty Bomb Detection Network
Monday April 29, 2013 @11:25AM Online Hitchhiker's Guide Thriving
Tuesday April 23, 2013 @09:26AM Crowdsourcing Failed In Boston Bombing Aftermath
Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:05PM OpenShot Close To Funding Final Stretch Goal: Video Editing Server
Saturday April 13, 2013 @03:03AM Crowdsourced Effort May Have Found Soviet Mars Mission's Remains
Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:25AM Crowdfunding Open Source Software Enhancements and Bug Fixes
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @03:38PM Intrade Shutdown Hurts Academics
Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:10PM When Google Got Flu Wrong
Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:39AM New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @10:32AM One-of-a-Kind Chemistry Autograph Collection Goes Digital
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @08:51AM Bloggers Put Scientific Method To the Test
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:25AM OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users
Thursday January 03, 2013 @10:29AM Einstein@Home Set To Break Petaflops Barrier
Sunday December 23, 2012 @02:15PM Typingpool: Human Audio Transcription Parallelism
Thursday November 01, 2012 @08:54AM Thanks For the Logos; Help Us Choose a Winner
Thursday October 25, 2012 @02:02PM Anonymous' WikiLeaks-Like Project Tyler To Launch In December
Sunday October 21, 2012 @08:56PM Ask Slashdot: How To Both Mirror and Protect Crowdsourced Data?
Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:18AM NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates
Thursday October 18, 2012 @09:26AM The FSF Adopts the Kickstarter Approach To Fund-raising
Thursday October 11, 2012 @07:59AM Intelligence Agencies Turn To Crowdsourcing
Tuesday October 02, 2012 @10:14AM You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer
Monday October 01, 2012 @02:13AM ForestWatchers Lets Anyone Monitor A Patch of Forest
Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:41AM Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon
Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:40AM Does Crowdfunding Work?
Wednesday September 19, 2012 @01:28PM Ask Director Daniel Knight About Filming Terry Pratchett's "Troll Bridge"
Saturday September 08, 2012 @01:00AM Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook
Monday September 03, 2012 @01:52PM Are App.net's Crowdfunders Being Taken For a Ride?
Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:53PM Twitter Based "Ted" System Warns of Earthquakes Earlier
Sunday August 26, 2012 @09:36AM The Oatmeal's Fundraiser Tops $1M Toward Tesla Museum
Thursday August 23, 2012 @08:09AM Slackware Documentation Project Begins In Earnest
Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:11AM Vote On What the Very Large Telescope Observes
Tuesday August 14, 2012 @12:12PM Monitoring Weapons Bans With Social Media
Sunday August 12, 2012 @03:25AM Georgia Tech Launches "Titan" Malware Analysis System
Saturday August 11, 2012 @08:13PM Validating Voters For Open Source Governance, In Person
Thursday July 12, 2012 @10:46AM Chinese Censors Are Being Watched
Thursday July 12, 2012 @09:27AM Entrepreneur Offers Crowdfunding For Health Startups, Including His Own
Tuesday June 26, 2012 @08:31AM Voice Algorithms Spot Parkinson's Disease
Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:32AM Grad Student Wins Alan Alda's Flame Challenge
Thursday June 07, 2012 @08:14AM EU "Clean IT" Project Considers Terrorist Content Database
Tuesday June 05, 2012 @12:12AM Liberated Pixel Cup Art Contest Launches
Thursday May 24, 2012 @10:03PM Volunteers Use Annular Eclipse To Measure Sun More Accurately
Friday May 18, 2012 @02:44AM GMU Prof Teaches How To Falsify Wikipedia — and Get Caught
Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:53AM Modeling People and Places With Internet Photo Collections
Sunday April 08, 2012 @10:32AM Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap
Thursday March 29, 2012 @05:16PM Google Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street Addresses
Thursday March 22, 2012 @01:52PM Entrepreneurs Watch As Crowdvesting Bill Stalls In Senate
Thursday March 08, 2012 @09:45AM Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap
Thursday March 01, 2012 @10:36AM Seti Live Website To Crowdsource the Search For Alien Life
Thursday March 01, 2012 @09:11AM Google Offers $1 Million For Chrome Exploits
Thursday February 16, 2012 @03:42PM Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android
Thursday February 09, 2012 @02:45PM Double Fine Raises $700,000 In 24 Hours With Crowdfunding
Thursday February 09, 2012 @12:30PM Sponsor a Valve On Colossus
Tuesday February 07, 2012 @11:50AM Delayed Outrage Over A Censored Site; What's a Better Way To Spread News?
Sunday January 29, 2012 @01:47PM Indian Site Offers Reward For Googler Vandal
Tuesday January 24, 2012 @11:07AM Star Wars Uncut Project Complete
Saturday January 21, 2012 @12:00AM Pentagon To Crowdsource Weapons Software Testing
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:58PM OpenStreetMap Reports Data Vandalism From Google-Owned IPs
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:40AM Putting Medical Records Into Patients' Hands
Saturday January 07, 2012 @05:50PM EPA Crowdsources Massive Photo Project
Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:53PM Latest From Second Life Creator: Crowdsourcing Small Jobs
Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:17PM Ask Carl Malamud About Shedding Light On Government Data
Tuesday January 03, 2012 @09:46AM EU Proposal Would Encourage Web Users To Flag Suspicious Web Pages
Sunday January 01, 2012 @02:19PM New Online Dictionaries Automate Away the Linguistic Middleman
Friday December 23, 2011 @08:36PM Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters
Sunday November 20, 2011 @12:38PM Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Redistrict New York
Sunday October 23, 2011 @09:24AM 3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs
Sunday October 09, 2011 @06:52PM A Few Million Monkeys Finish Recreating Shakespeare's Works
Sunday October 02, 2011 @01:51PM Help Liberate the Debian Administrator's Handbook
Saturday September 24, 2011 @05:37PM Steam Translation Community Slaving Away
Saturday September 24, 2011 @01:13AM Crowdsourcing Speeds Evolution of 3D Printable Objects
Thursday September 22, 2011 @08:35AM NASA Announces Space Apps Challenge
Thursday September 22, 2011 @08:27AM Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config
Tuesday September 20, 2011 @01:31PM Wikimedia Foundation releases their server config
Thursday September 08, 2011 @09:05AM Rent Your Own Botnet
Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:59PM Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV?
Saturday August 06, 2011 @08:37PM SETI Finds Funds For the Allen Telescope Array (For Now)
Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:22AM Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls
Sunday July 24, 2011 @09:22AM Internet-Based Political Party Opens Doors
Thursday July 21, 2011 @01:21PM World's Largest Visualization Analytics Display
Thursday July 21, 2011 @01:19PM Airport Queuing Time Measured With Bluetooth
Monday July 18, 2011 @07:53PM BBC Crowdsources 3G Coverage Map
Friday July 01, 2011 @08:42PM VoIP Data and Google Maps Mashup Shows Live Calls
Saturday June 25, 2011 @02:17PM Could Wikipedia Become a Supercomputer?
Saturday June 25, 2011 @10:37AM Record-Seeking Bloodhound SSC Goes Partially Open Source
Thursday June 23, 2011 @01:30PM OKCon11 Opens In Berlin
Friday June 17, 2011 @12:10PM Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters
Thursday June 16, 2011 @02:20PM Sunlight Foundation Announces 'Sarah's Inbox'
Saturday June 11, 2011 @10:42AM Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove
Monday June 06, 2011 @12:21AM UK Launches 'Peer To Patent' Pilot Project
Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:09PM MuseScore Makes Open Goldberg Variations Available
Friday May 27, 2011 @06:34PM Anti-Porn Facebook Page is Deleted, Then Restored
Tuesday May 24, 2011 @09:35PM Australians Look To SkyNet For SKA Telescope
Monday May 23, 2011 @06:35PM Wikipedia Edits Around the World
Saturday May 14, 2011 @12:14PM O'Reilly Author's Laptop Rescued By 'Twitter Posse' and Prey
Sunday May 01, 2011 @11:15AM Share Your iPhone Location Data Like You Mean It
Saturday April 30, 2011 @01:02PM Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC
Thursday April 28, 2011 @10:41PM If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It
Thursday April 28, 2011 @11:35AM My Crowdsourced Follow-Up About Crowdsourcing
Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:08PM Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want
Tuesday April 12, 2011 @04:35PM Bringing Open Source To Biomedicine
Friday April 08, 2011 @06:29PM Free DARPA Software Lets Gamers Hunt Submarines
Monday April 04, 2011 @07:35AM FBI Overwhelmed With 'Solutions' To Encrypted Note
Friday March 25, 2011 @04:09AM Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US
Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:49PM Help Map Global Light Pollution, By Starlight
Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:51AM Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes
Saturday March 19, 2011 @04:03PM Open-Source Bach; Copyright-Free Goldbergs
Friday March 18, 2011 @07:05PM How Is Obama Doing On Open Government?
Tuesday March 15, 2011 @04:13PM NASA Building Network of Smart Cameras Across US
Thursday February 24, 2011 @03:28PM DARPA Open-Sources Military Vehicle Design
Saturday January 15, 2011 @03:45PM Happy 10th Birthday To Wikipedia
Thursday January 06, 2011 @01:41PM Crowdfund a Moon Monolith Mission?
Thursday December 30, 2010 @05:03PM Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries
Monday December 20, 2010 @01:11PM Join a Worldwide Planet Search
Monday December 20, 2010 @09:24AM Cablegate, the Game
Thursday December 09, 2010 @03:37PM Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews
Saturday December 04, 2010 @07:39PM WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort
Friday November 26, 2010 @02:14PM Stephen Fry and DVD Jon Back USB Sniffer Project
Saturday November 20, 2010 @07:13PM British Gov't Releases Spending Data
Tuesday November 09, 2010 @09:20PM Mob-Sourcing — the Prejudice of Crowds
Friday November 05, 2010 @06:26PM $2,000 Bounty For Open Source Xbox Kinect Drivers
Tuesday November 02, 2010 @11:38AM Google Broadens Bug Bounties To Include Web App Security
Tuesday November 02, 2010 @11:33AM Will Wright To Make Fan-Participation TV Show
Sunday September 19, 2010 @08:28AM DDoS From 4chan Hits MPAA and Anti-Piracy Website
Thursday September 16, 2010 @10:24PM Some Netflix Users Have Rated 50,000 Shows