Laurel Papworth

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. In November 2000 they opened up the API and by 2006 had 5 billion API calls a month.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

At the time of writing this introduction (August 2006), no particular product or service exists that can definitively be categorised as a PLE, although some prototypical work is in progress. On the other hand, in Europe more sites use inhouse and open source implementations (Vuorikari, 2003). In January 2006, Blackboard Inc. ,

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Uniquely, though, Fixya has partnered with some companies to provide an official channel for crowdsourced tech support. 22 Comments. Graphic Design.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

And since we first covered it in April of 2006 it has gone completely free. When we first reviewed 2or3things Blastfeed in late 2006 it appeared to be shaping up as a good consumer filtering alternative to Feed Rinse. But since, the company has shifted gears and now offers Blastfeed as an enterprise filtering solution.

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