Why Are You Here Right Now? One Thousand People Collaborate to Create Worlds First Crowdsourced Book
Summary
The making of YRUHRN has been open source to the public and has utilized tools such as Amazons Mechanical Turk, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Technorati, Yahoo Groups, Joomla, and other web services.One month ago a group of individuals started a project, YRUHRN, to publish a book written with the use of crowdsourcing and creative efforts of entrepreneurs working from their homes.One third of the profits from YRUHRN will be donated to children affected by Hurricane Katrina by providing holiday gift cards in December 2006.YRUHRN is based on the big global city of the Internet and a crowd of strangers.The making of YRUHRN has been open source to the public and has utilized tools such as Amazons Mechanical Turk, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Technorati, Yahoo Groups, Joomla, and other web services.Mechanical Turk allowed YRUHRN to find hundreds of people and pay them a penny each to write an answer to the question.We all have similar life experiences and we are also all unique individuals.