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milk please lets users crowdsource groceries you forgot.  send request and people on their way to the store can pick it up for you

The National Movement for America's Children published an online video soliciting ideas for a clear, measurable approach to child development. This is being followed by a massive effort to aggregate and synthesize the responses into a cohesive national strategy for our children. This listening and dialogue will occur on the pledge site, on social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook, and in live town hall events throughout the country. The effort culminates Nov. 6 when we'll hold a rally to roll out this crowdsourced in Washington, D.C

crowdsourcing designs for people to vote on.  winners will have their design made into a real garment.

Behold the world's first crowdsourced movie-poster campaign created through Instagram! It's the pinnacle of creative achievement! Sigh … humankind's obsession with the ubiquitous photo app continues, this time in Canada, where ad agency Taxi teamed with the Instagramers Montreal collective to create 87 posters promoting the new film J'Espère Que Tu Vas Bien, which roughly translates to Instagram Isn't So Great. Actually, it means I Hope You're Well, and the number of posters corresponds to the 87-minute running time of the movie, an experimental piece-entirely improvised, with no script written beforehand-that follows two friends as they saunter around Montreal. The Instagramers walked for 87 minutes, visiting locations used in the film, and submitted more than 600 shots all told.

Yelp is the first almost entirely crowdsourced media entity entities to go public. Yelp's entire business is built on the more than 25 million reviews that it has accrued over the years from its users. That user-submitted content is the reason that Yelp attracts more than 66 million unique visitors a month.

Good examples of crowdsourcing in the music biz.

Crowdsourced videos to promote their favorite HBO shows

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3 crowdsourcing examples for product creation

Waze draws data on roads and traffic by analysing collective data from its users, while also enabling them to actively submit reports on accidents, police traps and other blockages. The company has shown off its crowdsourced data with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) videos like this one for Los Angeles:

A new startup called Deliv hopes to provide retailers with a new way to please tech-savvy shoppers, by offering same-day local delivery for the same price - or less - than having items shipped. Crowdsources peoples around the area to deliver for it. More about convenience than speed -- time of day is most important

cool crowdsourced content aggregated into mentos page -- vote fresh or not fresh

cool site that crowdsources help from others to find specific products

Crowdsourced soda

Time lapsed, so it starts with one picture then adds more over a few weeks.

FB app that lets users create a new beer. Not sure I see the incentive to use unless you are going to SXSW of the Sam Adams Boston Brewery this spring. 

The platform wars for the quantified self are well underway.

From Japan, a collaborative authoring community. "Cellphone novels" have been around for a while there, but this service uses Twitter and keeps the entire work open-sourced so the novel is remixable and people can pick up from anywhere in the novel to change the direction of the story and make it their own. It's pretty cool.

This ties in to what we were discussing after the personal futures workshop. The article makes the case for providing legal structure to crowdsourced systems and employment.

They'll use Victors & Spoils' Squirrel Fight creative submission engine.