Crowdsourcing: Startup Hopes To Shake Up DYI Facebook App Market By Sharing Ad Revenue

A new startup thinks it can take a slice of the booming make-your-own Facebook app market with a seemingly simple strategy: Pay users to create apps. AppBank, which launches today, gives users a cut of the ad revenue generated from the ads that surround the basic polls and quizzes they build...Hsu, along with a partner, started Oversee.net nine years ago and then sold some of their holdings in the company to Oak Hill Capital Partners for $150 million a year-and-half ago. He’s funding AppBank with his own cash; the startup currently has six full-time employees. The plan is to eventually expand to include other social networks and also let users create more sophisticated apps. “We acknowledge that quizzes and games and gifting apps are sort of the fad,” Hsu says. “(We want to be on top of the) next series of popular apps that end users can crowdsource themselves.”
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Zimride saves the planet by crowdsourcing our empty car seats

Zimride saving the planet one ride share at a time...For too long we have driven our cars with empty seats. Zimride is a simple way to find friends, classmates and coworkers going the same way you are.Combining social networks and our proprietary route-matching algorithm, we’ve made it easy to share the seats in your car or catch a ride. Zimride empowers you to create social, sustainable and convenient transportation. Together we can get anywhere.
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Will VitaminWater's Facebook App Make Us Smarter About Crowdsourcing?

Before we begin with our deep thoughts about flavored water, here's a brief rundown of the crowdsourcing program: The brand has added a "flavorcreator" tab to its Facebook page (which currently has almost 475,000 fans), allowing people to vote for the next VitaminWater flavor, the ten finalists having already been determined. (A cloud and a ranking list within the app shows what flavors are currently the most talked about. At this writing, green apple and mint were running one and two.)...I'm a little confused about why ultimate decision-making goes to 50 Cent (a company investor) and Carrie Underwood. Shouldn't the winner be the one most people voted for?
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Million-Dollar Crowd Sourcing:

Shankman has since grown HARO, which started out in 2007 as a Facebook application, into a million-dollar business built around a mailing list of 100,000 press-hungry readers..."Open my e-mail and you can wind up on the front page of a national newspaper, or on the Today Show," he says. The cost? Just a couple clicks.
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