Crowdsourcing software firm Imaginatik lands $2.6M

Imaginatik plc, a Boston enterprise software company, has pulled in $2.6 million from new and returning investors.The company focuses its software development on crowdsourcing — reliance on customers and users to create the software and services to fit company needs
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Purdue trustees approve $24 million Verizon Business Network Services project to include crowdsourcing...

Purdue University students and faculty can expect a creative jolt this fall from a massive computer network upgrade. This fall Sugato Chakravarty will experiment with "crowdsourcing" -- one of a few new experiments planned for the network -- in his popular, 400-student personal finance course.
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TCL Crowdsourcing Brings On-Demand Web and Application Testing to the UK

18,000-Strong uTest Community Now Available to Help UK Organisations Control Cost of Software Testing, Accelerate Time-to-Market and Improve Overall Quality. TCL Crowdsourcing today announces that uTest, the world’s largest marketplace for testing web sites as well as desktop, mobile and gaming applications is now available in UK. The on-demand, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution is already reshaping the quality assurance (QA) landscape in the USA for organisations such as Google, Thomson Reuters and Intuit, and is set to do the same in the UK. Tony Prosser, Director at TCL Crowdsourcing explains, “Unlike hiring additional in-house QA personnel or signing long-term outsourcing contracts, TCL Crowdsourcing enables real-world, massive software testing coverage. Bespoke virtual QA teams with appropriate skills are constructed by environment and demographics such as access device type, application rules, firewall settings, geographic location, language, age, sex etc and deliver real-time responsiveness.
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Twitter all-star? Best Buy may want to hire you...

CHICAGO - After buzz built online about a new marketing job, Best Buy Co. Inc. is reworking the help-wanted listing that sought Twitter experience and put a number on it — 250 followers. After the initial description for the new position of senior manager of emerging media marketing was published four weeks ago, the world's largest consumer electronics chain watched as the blogosphere reacted, prompting scores of tweets, re-tweets and blog posts. The requirement for popularity on the Twitter social-networking Web site caused the most online discussion and ultimately prompted the chain to harness the technology it hoped its newest employee would use. Best Buy opened the crowd-sourcing gates and asked the public for input on just what kind of skills and talents applicants should have. A blog post by Best Buy's chief marketing officer announcing the effort generated some 3,400 hits and produced nearly 250 comments.
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Has Canonical licensed away its business model?

By announcing that it has open-sourced its Launchpad project under the Affero GPL version 3, a year after rumors swirled that it would, has Canonical licensed away one of its best revenue opportunities? As RedMonk analyst James Governor suggests, "(It may be) possible to make money as a tools company, without owning the runtime, if you offer hosting for the apps. IDE (integrated development environment) + cloud = dollars." Open source may help to make Launchpad more widely used, which, in turn, better positions it to be a Canonical-sponsored on-ramp to the Canonical-monetized cloud. Not a bad idea. (Certainly better than the apperi-sponsored Ubuntu application store, as reported by The VAR Guy.) It does suggest, however, that Canonical may be placing a lot of eggs in the cloud basket, a basket that has yet to prove that it can deliver solid, consistent returns to software companies. It comes with its own baggage, as Jonathan Zittrain writes). Time will tell if the cloud can feed Canonical's employees. But Shuttleworth isn't the sort of person to do something just because all the "in" kids are open-sourcing these days. Licensing Launchpad under the AGPL version 3 is a calculated move. We just don't know what the calculus will yield quite yet. To Learn More Click Here

Guy Kawasaki answers amongst other things....Crowd Sourcing rules!

Guy Kawasaki, Author, Tweeter, Creator, Venture Capitalist, Marketer and ‘owner’ of one mammoth Wikipedia entry. The man has it all and yet he still gets up everyday like the rest of us (and as we find out below not just to open cheques!). His bio shames even the most accomplished of professionals and yet he remains gracious and open. He kindly gave me some of his time to answer the following questions I had (along with some of @themediaisdying followers too – crowdsourcing rules!).To Learn More Click Here

Google unveils Moderator: crowd-source good questions

Google Moderator is a unique new project designed to help the audience decide the best questions to ask at events like city council meetings or tech talks. We had some questions of our own for one of Google Moderator's engineers (who happens to be a long-time Arsian) about the project and where it's headed.To Learn More Click Here