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Crowdsourcing and collaboration framework.

Crowdsourcing and collaboration.

What interested me here wasn't the "marketplace" but the rules and structure that 99 Designs puts in place to help guide the collaboration between the contest holder and the crowd/cloud of designers.

Sometimes collaboration (and tool use) isn't what you'd expect.