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I have had crowdsourcing on my mind for quite some time as a potential foundation for several web/mobile based services.
Turns out, so has everyone else

This will be another link dump as I still haven't figured out how to manage all my bookmarks.

Good video describing crowdsourcing.

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/community/prediction/6

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/from-the-editor

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/editorial/ ... -time/2061

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/editorial/ ... -sins/1900

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/community/tools/8

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/site/brain ... ckcom/2216

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/document/c ... g-v12/1468

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/document/t ... -2011/2254

http://www.demoslam.com/#/champs

http://www.inventables.com/

http://peertopatent.tumblr.com/

http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/

http://www.hsx.com/

http://www.skild.com/Customers/case-studies.php

http://www.brainrack.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/BrainRack ... 659?v=wall

Yes, I am somewhat embarrassed that I have had these ideas on my mind for so long and am just now getting around to being heartbroken by googling the topic and finding hundreds of hits.