Tag Archives: competition

Fritter? What Facebook’s Opening Up Means for Twitter

By Greg Huntoon | February 6, 2009

Facebook has just made a bunch of significant updates today, most notably opening “up access to the content and methods for sharing through…status, Notes, Links (what we used to call Posted Items), and Video…” Not sure if you read the article awhile back over at AllFacebook, but Nick called it a few weeks back. I’m [...]

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Crowdsourcing Design Is Poison to the Design Community

By Greg Huntoon | January 25, 2009

Pawning sites like Crowdspring, Bootb.com, GeniusRocket, Worth1000.com and 99designs off as “crowdsourcing design networks” is covering the wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s one thing to run a design contest online - a true contest where there’s an objective, a prize or prizes, and most importantly a singularity of purpose.
It’s a completely different thing to build [...]

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