Open Innovation: Crowdsourcing

• Innocentive (http://www.innocentive.com): one of today’s best online platform for open innovation, crowdsourcing and innovation contests. This is where organizations access the world’s brightest problem solvers.
• X-PRIZE Foundation (http://www.xprize.org): The X PRIZE focuses on designing and running incentive competitions in the $1M – $30M arena focused on solving grand challenges.
• Genius Rocket (http://geniusrocket.com): solid crowdsourced creative design agency composed solely of vetted video production professionals producing content as a fraction of the cost of a traditional ad agency.
• IdeaConnection (http://www.ideaconnection.com): open innovation challenge site for new inventions, innovations and products.
• NineSigma (http://www.ninesigma.com): open innovation service provider, connecting clients with a global innovation network of experts.
• Ennovent (http://www.ennovent.com): worldwide expert platform seeking solutions for sustainable development in energy, food, water, health and education in rural India.

How SEO software is changing the way we read and write

by Annalee Newitz

Flustered pundits claim that blogging has changed writing forever, but they're wrong. You know what has really changed writing? Google search. Thousands of internet puppies are writing "content" that is perfectly optimized to rise to the top of search rankings. Search engine optimization (SEO) has become its own art, a genre designed to make writing algorithm-friendly and human-clickable. What has SEO done to our writing? Now Sean Gallagher over at Ars Technica has a smart, funny article about a new piece of consumer software, InboundWriter, which helps you turn any piece of writing into something that's optimized for search. The best part is that Gallagher actually ran his own article through InboundWriter, so his analysis of SEO is actually designed to be 99% optimized for SEO.

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Prototyping/Wireframe/Mockup Tools

Pencil Project
http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx

Verify
http://verifyapp.com/

Web Site Wireframe Tool
http://wireframe.talltree.us/default.asp

Mockingbird
https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/

fluidA
http://stage.fluidia.org/

fluidUI
https://fluidui.com/

Cacoo
https://cacoo.com/

Lumzy
http://lumzy.com/app/

iPhone Mockup
http://iphonemockup.lkmc.ch/

Google SketchUp
http://www.sketchup.com/product/newin7.html