http://www.bazaarvoice.com/blog/2006/08/12/this-week-in-the-news-word-of-mouth-everywhere/ Ideas to Help Customers Build Your Business Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.bazaarvoice.com/blog/2006/08/12/this-week-in-the-news-word-of-mouth-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-1653 Bazaarblog » Blog Archive » The Ultimate Holiday Toy: A Crowdsourced, Word-of-Mouth Wunderkind Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:50:48 +0000 http://www.bazaarvoice.com/blog/2006/08/12/this-week-in-the-news-word-of-mouth-everywhere/#comment-1653 [...] First of all, I have written about crowdsourcing a few times on Bazaarblog (see my May post introducing the term, August post on Yahoo! and crowdsourcing ads - with a nod to GM doing the same, September post on Google and crowdsourcing image labels, or early December post on JPG Magazine and crowdsourcing photos).  I have also referenced the book "The Wisdom of Crowds" several times.  20 Questions is the wisdom of the crowds.  It is a database of over 46,700,000 (and rapidly counting) individual games played by "the crowd".  The crowd, of course, is you, as in "you: the person of the year" (as you have recently been named by Time magazine).  Yes, 20 Questions is a huge database of consumer(player)-generated content! [...] [...] First of all, I have written about crowdsourcing a few times on Bazaarblog (see my May post introducing the term, August post on Yahoo! and crowdsourcing ads – with a nod to GM doing the same, September post on Google and crowdsourcing image labels, or early December post on JPG Magazine and crowdsourcing photos).  I have also referenced the book "The Wisdom of Crowds" several times.  20 Questions is the wisdom of the crowds.  It is a database of over 46,700,000 (and rapidly counting) individual games played by "the crowd".  The crowd, of course, is you, as in "you: the person of the year" (as you have recently been named by Time magazine).  Yes, 20 Questions is a huge database of consumer(player)-generated content! [...]

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