So todays topic isn't exactly a "trend" so to speak on Twitter but never the less I find it rather interesting. The whole aspect of creating a much more social web / internet has lead to some amazing concepts. Crowdsourcing & Microfinancing being two of the most powerful in my opinion. They have been getting a lot of buzz for the past couple of years and now slowly starting to get more mainstream media attraction. Such sites as kiva.org & kickstarter.com are right up there to be the next big way to fund small but amazing projects in this post recession era. Obviously sites like wikipedia.org would not exist without crowdsourcing it's information (you don't think few hundred or even thousand people could really re-write a continually evolving encyclopedia on their own did you?).
One other way people are slowly turning to crowdsourcing is through content creation. Some might call this lazy, but I see it as potentially game changing. What other projects could foster such close ties with the people who will eventually consume this content than if they themselves helped create it.
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