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By: Crowdsourcing – Is mise Eire « A Life in Beta

Crowdsourcing – Is mise Eire « A Life in Beta — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:09:33 +0000

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By: Jesse Stanchak

Jesse Stanchak — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:23:09 +0000

Looks like MIT coughed up the goods faster than I expected: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10411211-93.html

By: Joshua Monge

Joshua Monge — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:05:52 +0000

I can see it being used for “Guerilla Marketing” Tactics. There seems to be a common drive in everyone to relate or be apart of something bigger.

If you can tap into it (the movement) and set-up data points (hashtags, Fan Pages, etc.) for people to leave and receive data, then you only need to monitor those points. Problem is finding the key to bring the whole thing to the points you establish and not other ones that are unmonitored.

That’s the benefit from al of this. We don’t need to make people do anything other then checkin at a designated point.

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