Floozy Speak!

Lots of bit trends taking center stage lately.  Months ago I jumped on the band wagon of FriendFeed not because it was the new coolest beta in town, but because of the service it gave me, all my stuff in one RSS-able thread, so simple, why did this take forever to come along? 

Next up is crowd sourcing.  I've played the crowd on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, participated in voting sites like Digg and more.  Its a solid concept and it can generate results fast.  Its fun to tap the crowd and get a sense for where you're at, where its going and where you may be headed.  I see crowd sourcing staying not going away any time soon.  People are on the web, participating in all kinds of different ways, you can't turn the signal off. 

Here's my little presentation I put together playing around with Amazon's Mechanical Turk.  The idea started off simple, what kind of data can I get for 5 bucks.  I wanted to run a series of experiements on Mechanical Turk to see what kinds of data bits I could get from the crowd. 

Crowd sourcing is very interesting to me, and i don't see it as a passing fad, there's alot of benefit from the process.  Now the biggest hurdle in crowd sourcing innovation has is adequate opt in by real folks with real things to gain and acting on hot ideas as they pop up.  I see this more as a generator for ideas vs the go do list.  It shouldn't be acted on right away, if anything its like discovery in research, get a taste for where the pulse of the conversation could be going then get down and dirty with real live participants and start drilling more qualatively. 

For more of a drill down into where crowd sourcing is at, check out MyStarbucks Idea, Dell Ideastorm, Amazon's Mechanical Turk and new offers like IdeaScale.
GetStatisfaction is another like site but works from more of customer service angle.

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