Crowdosourcing started to appear on newspaper and massively adopted by almost every technology journalist after Jeff Howe's article "The rise of crowdsourcing" appeared on Wired in 2006. Reading the article now, a couple of things got my attention.
First, I heard about InnoCentive, one of the companies described by Howe, in 2003 (I still have my class notes from that Innovation Management lesson...) but at the time my professor use to call it "Innomediator" .
Second, it' s strange how sometimes visions of the future seems to completly forget about the past. The article tells us about Michael Hirschorn, executive vice president of original programming and production at VH1, and it goes:
<< Hirschorn thinks the crowd will be a crucial component of TV 2.0 "I can Imagine a time when all our shows will have a user-generated component">>
Now that sounds cool: TV2.0, user-generated component...Well, maybe the buzzword hit just on 2006 but in 1990 we were already seeing the future!!!
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