Does crowd sourcing work?
Consider this, Wikipedia is just over nine years old and currently has 2.9 million articles. Contrast this with Microsoft’s Encarta at a little over 42,000 articles which was founded 16 years ago when Microsoft bought assets from the now defunct Funk & Wagnells.
Microsoft announced today that Encarta will be discontinued this year, saying: “People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years past.”
I think that’s prima facie evidence that crowd sourcing works.
Brendan Lewis is a serial technology entrepreneur having founded : Ideas Lighting, Carradale Media, Edion, Verve IT, The Churchill Club, Flinders Pacific and L2i Technology Advisory. He has set up businesses for others in Romania, Indonesia and Vietnam. Qualified in IT and Accounting, he has also spent time running an Advertising agency and as a Cavalry Officer with the Australian Army Reserve.
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