Crowdsourcing to map the world
Herd It is a “crowdsourcing” application. We’re collecting information about music by asking lots of music fans – like you – to contribute a little bit of information. By adding this information up over the entire Herd, we can start to really understand all the world’s music. In return for contributing data to Herd It, you get to hear great music and play fun games!
There are lots of other crowdsourcing ideas popping up all over the place. Some great examples are:
GalaxyZoo.org – help scientists discover and label all the millions and billions of galaxies in the universe.
Waze.com – build maps, traffic reports and turn-by-turn directions for everywhere in the world (iPhone app is only for Israel and US so far).
reCAPTCHA – when web sites ask you to type in words to prove that you are human, you’re also helping transcribe old books.
Written by herdit
September 24th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
