Groundcrew Blog: Archive

Your new mission control on iPhone

Today we’re launching v1 of our iPhone app. Go get it and try it out. For those new to Groundcrew, it lets you start things. We call them missions: Start things in your neighborhood, ask questions of the people who live near you, run events, gather photos and reports, etc. In each case, Groundcrew finds people near you who have joined the same squad and are ready for action, and makes it...

Jun 29th

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These are slides from PdF 2010. It’s about how to make a product that makes a difference.

Jun 4th

Groundcrew: Organizing the Social Web on the Terra... →

Feb 15th

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Why Our Bright Green... →

I want everyone to read this. Electric cars and local food production are distractions. The path to sustainability is a new world totally unlike our current civilization: a total re-imagination of work, leisure, and sustenance. We can do it, and Groundcrew is a key piece of infrastructure.

Feb 5th

Is it possible to live a life without money? |... →

The best description of the dumpster diving / squatting lifestyle we have read. And a powerful argument for creating a reputation system that motivates owners to leverage excess capacity for the public good.

Jan 30th

Here’s the audio from a talk I gave at the...

Dec 21st

Dec 15th

DARPA Network Challenge →

Several people have mentioned that our real-time, location-based coordination service, Groundcrew, could be helpful in finding the DARPA Network Challenge balloons. Groundcrew integrates with facebook, twitter, and SMS, and could be used to: coordinate taking Aerial or roadside photos coordinate verification squads on the ground gather analyses and ideas about possible locations plant...

Dec 2nd

Nov 26th

Nov 8th

What would you like to see done with Groundcrew?

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be gathering ideas for community coordination projects from all of you, and inviting some of you to post paragraphs or to guest blog about your ideas. Send your idea—make them beautiful and relevant to your experience or field—to joe at citizenlogistics dot com!

Oct 19th

CEO Joe interviewed by Stowe Boyd →

“I am particularly impressed by the self-organizing qualities of Groundcrew, around ‘participation design’, where the volunteers are handed more control about how their involvement should be applied in some project or activity, instead of just being told what to do. Groundcrew can also keep track of people’s contributions and then award reputation (what I call...

Oct 13th

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An ignite talk on Groundcrew filmed by the good folks at ACTV. Tells the story of the first wish granted on Groundcrew! (full video)

Oct 13th

New Blog Location

Hi folks, we’ve moved our blog over to tumblr to make it easier to communicate with you all. (Old blog entries are archived here.)

Oct 13th