Things have been crazy for me for a little while now. It’s now two weeks since Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010, and I am only just now able to download some of what happened at the event. The feedback from participants at the Summit has been consistently excellent, and we have been keen to share some of the great insights at the event with the world at large.
We do not have full video of the event, however we do have audio, and we will be sharing that before long, together with some written excerpts from what the speakers said. In the meantime, here is a small selection of some of the more interesting tweets from the event. (Note that since Twitter search only goes up to 10 days ago, I have retrieved the tweets from Topsy, which has an excellent search though I’m not sure that it has captured all of the twitterstream.)
You’ll notice some emerging themes from these tweets – I’ll expand on some of these later.
@bhc3: #foc10 Winsor: Victors & Spoils are developing reputation ratings for creatives based on their crowdsourcing contributions.
@silverton: #FOC10 In journalism, “What happens when a user is better than your reporter?” – Larry Dignan, ZDNet
@AbiGoldflake: #foc10 crowdsourcing of metrics & forecasts from staff within an org – prob much more accurate – Mat Fogarty from Crowdcast
@stilgherrian: Nicholas Gruen is pointing out that at the heart of successful crowd projects, e.g. open source software, there are elites. #foc10
@roneo: Kevin Bloch Cisco Aust CTO says the iPad is already out if date b/c it can’t capture events & conversations on video. #foc10
@roneo: ABC uses Storify to plug into the crowd to create richer stories.The media becomes relevant to it’s audience. Journos as curators? #foc10
@amylyden: Crowdsourcing is the ability to hire 1/10 of a person – gr8 4 startups. Lukas Biewald CEO CrowdFlower #foc10
@amylyden: Good question from SF- how will lower unemployment affect crowdsourcing in future? #foc10
@leapingotter: No one has mentioned sustainability effects of crowdsourcing; triple bottom line : good 4 enviro; less sure about social justice #foc10
@jdub: Every time you use the phrase “crowd sourcing”, an individual, enfranchised co-creator dies. 
#foc10
@jdub: There’s no faceless “crowd” at the heart of the most productive form of meritocratic peer production yet seen: open source. #foc10
@bhc3: #foc10 AMP’s @maverickwoman notes employees have a cognitive surplus, and are attracted to participating. #e20
@bhc3: #foc10 Winsor: Traditional ad agencies focus on their creatives a la #madmen. Next generation of will curate contributions from crowd.
@stilgherrian: Agreed, @natecochrane, a real sense of “We’re doing you a favour by paying you far less than what we’d have to here.” #foc10
@jtwinsor: @rossdawson great event tonight. Learning a lot.#foc10
@bhc3: #foc10 Odesk’s Gary Swart notes that his company is seeing a lot of traction in SMB market. Notes Salesforce was also only SMB early.
@silverton: #FOC10 “We’re greatly underestimating the magnitude of the global disruption to labor markets underway.” Matt Barrie @freelancer
@silverton: #FOC10 “The world is being handed over to the participators.” Nicholas Gruen me: Our obligation to maximize participation!
@kobygeddes: #foc10 Edelstein – ‘people as automated, self controlled, quality controlled assembly lines’. Think ‘people’ would like that description?
@pinglo: @abcmarkscott mentions @jeffjarvis point re journalists being “elegant organisers” of content gathered in all kinds of ways. #foc10
@stilgherrian: Journalism is often the search for the people who know what’s going on, says @ABCMarkScott, so crowdsourcing is a boon. #foc10
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