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Seekers, Solvers and Science

Where there's a problem there's a payment!

My sister, Andrea, pointed out this website to me. The idea behind it is very interesting, but I wonder how trustworthy it is:

www.innocentive.com

It seems to only cater to biology and chemistry, so far. I guess software development just doesn't fall under the category of "tough R&D problems".

I'd love to see a problem submitted like, "How to convert string to array of bytes in C#?". Although, someone would probably beat me to it :)

 

As always, I'd love to hear from anyone that has something to say about this post.  Drop me a comment.

Published Saturday, December 09, 2006 4:07 AM by Dave Sexton
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# re: Seekers, Solvers and Science

Innocentive is actually very trustworthy and typically caters to large (fortune 500) pharma and agribusiness clients. That's been changing recenty as can be evidenced by the recent posting of a "three ring" binder challenge. The beauty of innocentive lies in the subtleties like the way they handle intellectual property for example. I understand that there's a relatively big announcement related to innocentive coming out very soon. You may also care to know that one of their primary funders is pierre omidyar, founder of ebay.

Monday, March 19, 2007 12:20 AM by

# re: Seekers, Solvers and Science

Interesting stuff.  It's definitely a great concept.

It appears that they have been around (on the web, at least) for only a few years.  I suspect that there coverage of various scientific fields will continue to expand as they become more popular through word of "blog".

I'm curious to know what the future announcement will be.  Perhaps, "We have just been purchased by Google"? ;)

- Thanks for the reply -

Monday, March 19, 2007 12:22 AM by Dave Sexton

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