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New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was honored Monday with a Webby award for Lifetime Achievement for his work with the Bloomberg media corporation. The award was presented by Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp, who reminded the audience that if it wasn’t for Bloomberg’s contribution to financial technology, we wouldn’t have found out the cost of Facebook stock shares until Monday. CNET Nearly a dozen celebrities, politicians and tech luminaries paid tribute to late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at The Webby Awards show. A video featuring president Barack Obama, former president Bill Clinton and others expressing admiration for Jobs, who died last October, was shown to attendees and streamed over the Web. The Verge Actor Richard Dreyfuss gave a strange and oftentimes discursive speech that began with a jab at Facebook and Google. “If you’re going to take our privacy away from us, why don’t you tell us something private about yourselves,” Dreyfus said to an awkwardly hushed reception. “And if you’re going to change our world, why don’t you pay for it, because it’s theft.” USA Today Instagram won Webby Breakout of the Year, Pinterest took home a social media award, and Facebook scored the People Special Achievement for Social Change honor. In addition, Skype won for Best Social Mobile & Apps. For the complete list of winners, visit WebbyAwards.com Read more

As the South by Southwest Interactive conference winds down, the tech-loving attendees are still talking about it on Twitter. This year, enterprise crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower launched a sentiment analysis project that relied on manpower, not computer analytics, to gauge the mood of the crowd.

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Kickstarter is the place for independent filmmakers/comic book writers/sculptors/etc to raise money for their ventures.  The site lets anybody log on, find a project they like, and donate any given amount.  If the donor give certain amounts, the content creators reward that person with a special item; a limited edition version of the film or a hard copy of a comic, for instance.

Just recently, the site achieved it’s 3rd million dollar project, a comic book entitled “Order of the Stick”.

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Earlier this week Todd wrote about the LocalMind app for the iPhone, and the Android version of this free crowdsourcing app is now available in the Android Market. With LocalMind you can ask questions to and receive answers from people checked in at or near your location.
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Over the last several years we have seen examples of how mobile communications, whether its text messaging or social apps like Twitter, have been used to share information during emergencies and disasters. A problem exists, however, in that with the information spread across multiple sites you can spend a significant amount of time seeking out information. Elerts is a mobile app and service that aims to make it easier for citizens to share information about emergencies, and make it easy for first responders to receive and use the information provided.
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MSNBC Digital Network-owned BreakingNews.com added a “Spot” tab in November, allowing users to upload tweets, photos, and videos. Now, the site is taking crowdsourcing one step further, allowing news organizations on its list to fast-track breaking news via tweet by including @breakingnews or #breakingnews within the text.

Editors will choose breaking news stories of regional or national interest and push them directly to the homepage, the @BreakingNews Twitter feed, the Breaking News Facebook page and its mobile apps.

BreakingNews.com said more than 40 news organizations (local TV stations and newspapers) have opted in to the program, and interested organizations can apply via this form.

From the Inside Breaking News blog:

For the news organization, that means a burst of traffic and perhaps a few new Twitter followers. For us, it helps BreakingNews find stories faster (we receive a daily avalanche of Twitter replies and mentions) and give credit where credit is due. All we ask is that the tips stick to original breaking stories that have a regional or national interest. Our goal is to link the source of breaking stories, not rewritten copies of it.

Crowdsourcing has been in the news this week with Apple explaining how it plans to collect traffic information via iPhones. The idea behind crowdsourcing is to distribute work across a large group of people. SeeClickFix is a combination of mobile apps and web site that has the purpose of providing feedback to governments and media outlets. Free mobile SeeClickFix apps are available for Blackberry and iPhone smartphones, and the Android version has just become available in the Android Market.
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Not so surprising: A major Republican advocacy group founded by Karl Rove to finance conservative issues and political campaigns is launching a new assault on the Obama administration. Surprising: the page they are taking out of the social media playbook to do so.

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New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg has announced an aspiring new program, called Simplicity, focusing on getting ideas from the city employees for efficient functioning of the giant metropolis. The program will use enterprise-grade social networking technology for internal city employee collaborations and solicitation of their ideas. Simplicity will be handled by Silicon Valley tech company Spigit, which has created social networking tools for effective crowdsourcing, internal collaboration and sharing of ideas.

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Getting in to the creative freelance business can be hard. We’ve put together a list of 15 websites that can help you showcase your work, build your portfolio and get some experience (and money) under your belt when you are first starting out.

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