CrowdSPRING recently identified consumers as an emerging trend of new buyers with an increase in consumers looking for unique, one-of-a-kind designs for invitations, greeting cards, personal websites and themed party favours.

Recently InnoCentive announced a partnership with a leading science and technology publication, Popular Science. The partnership will enable connections to be made between organisations whom are experiencing important science, technology or engineering problems and people and global communities who have the expertise to solve the problems.

Freelancer.com has recently announced due to a boom in the recent design contests they will now be expanding their design contest to include all design categories.

Freelancer.com has recently announced the axing of listing fees for all projects until the end August 2011.

Recently Freelancer.com announced the launch of a dedicated regional website (www.freelancer.ph) with the objective to support small business owners, freelancers and entrepreneurs in the Philippines. Freelancer.com reported as of 2009, 99.60% of the business enterprise economy micro, small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). Many of these organisations require specific skill sets which may not be readily available in their immediate demographic. With the launch of the new site, businesses are now able to hire workers from the other side of the globe to enable their business or organisation to grow and support their local economy without having to relocate overseas to achieve entrepreneur success.

Recently oDesk announced during these hard financial times, businesses around the world are seeking new competitive advantages beyond the traditional models of employing staff in their office and going online to sought contract and remote workers.

While undergoing routine maintenance on WhichLance we noticed that CGILance has recently closed its marketplace. The site now feautres a programming related blog.

Recently InnoCentive announced a collaboration with Cleveland Clinic to take healthcare research to the next level with a series of Challenges being housed on InnoCentive’s website.