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Jim spends his days as a digital guy at The Leith Agency, spare minutes spinning Leith Records and nights howling at the moon. All views expressed are mostly none of his own.

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TuneTug: Crowdsource Music For Your Party

Nice little app for putting together party playlists and getting your mates to vote on them. Welcome to social clubbing, where the people are the DJs.

Tunetug.com

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Via @stumac01

The state of wikipedia

To celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th year of existence, big Jimmy Wales has put together this animation (with the directorial guidance of Jess3). Being a household name now, it’s easy to miss just how gargantuan it’s become in such a relatively short space of time, with 400 million monthly visitors and 13.5 zillion entries. Long may it live. 

#siteoftheday: Sparked.com

Sparked: A clever, simple, well-designed site enabling people to do “micro-volunteering” jobs for charities. A bit like Mechanical Turk for good deeds.

Interesting application of crowdsourcing for design innovation. Provided it can create enough of Win-Win situation for both students and companies it could herald the future of outsourced, crowdsourced design.

See also Crowdspring and 99Designs.

via @techcrunchUK

Another example of crowdsourcing innovation. Seems like everyone’s doing it now, even Starbucks ..

.. And in the true spirit of sharing the reward for creating good ideas, Starbucks says: “If we implement your idea, we may give you credit on the site, but we won’t be compensating customers if their ideas are chosen”. That’s nice.

via @jameselliot

Not one to go on about how well the Guardian are embracing the potential of web technologies, but here’s another simple application of web 2.0 Flickr communities for sourcing great content.

And everyone’s a winner: a community is formed around their love of British summers, photographers get their work showcased, Flickr gets more photos & users, and the Guardian gets great content, sells more advertising and lives to publish a little longer.

See more about tracking your staycation or even join the staycation Flickr group.

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