Announcements
We’re not Burger King, but we still want you to ‘Have it Your Way’
Bethany | November 4th, 2009The crowdSPRING message is all over the place – we have a blog, we use Twitter, we have Facebook, we have email, we have customer support tickets and oh yeah, we even have phones. We’ve tried to cover all our bases on how to get out our message and constantly work on ensuring you’re able [...]
Type Nerds, Take the Test
Jeff | October 29th, 2009I was reminded today from Tal (a developer at crowdSPRING) that a new version of Ubuntu is out today. Code-named “the unoriginal banana” version or something, I don’t know. Ubuntu has great, but ridiculous, naming conventions. Now, Ubuntu isn’t exactly known to be friendly with designers. There are certainly people who use The Gimp and [...]
Build a Better Light Bulb – Earn $10 Million
Ross | October 22nd, 2009You might recall that Neflix recently awarded a $1 million prize to a group that improved Netflix’s movie recommendation system by 10%. Thanks to eesdesigner, one of the designers on crowdSPRING, I learned today about an interesting crowdsourcing competition recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy – an award of up to $10 million [...]
Standards of Conduct For Buyers – We Want YOUR Input!
Ross | October 14th, 2009crowdSPRING is building the world’s most awesome community of creatives. To build a world-class community, we must all come together as a community and respect each other and people who visit this community. Earlier this year, after an excellent discussion in our community, we adopted Standards of Conduct for Creatives. We’ve been working to draft [...]
Ask crowdSPRING: Can Creative Commons Licensed Works Be Used For Logo Design?
Ross | October 1st, 2009In the past, we’ve discussed why it’s unlawful to use stock images, including royalty-free stock, for logo design. This morning in the crowdSPRING forums, we’ve been discussing whether it’s appropriate to use work licensed under a Creative Commons license, for logo design. This is an important topic and a serious issue. If you don’t have [...]
crowdSPRING 2.0 update
Tal | September 3rd, 2009Hi, crowdSPRINGers! We, the development team, have been working hard to get crowdSPRING 2.0 ready for release, and haven’t had much time to interact with the community, except to take a break once in a while to see what exciting projects are posted, and see some inspiring creative work. But, just to keep us from [...]
crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – In Our Own Backyard
Ross | August 18th, 2009Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. crowdSPRING will waive its fees and will assist the organizations with posting their project. We will collaborate together to help those [...]
