InnoCentive: started in 2002, crowdsources research and development for biomedical and pharmaceutical companies, among other companies in other industries. InnoCentive, provides connection and relationship management services between “Seekers” and “Solvers.” Seekers are the companies searching for solutions to critical challenges. Solvers are the 125,000 registered members of the InnoCentive crowd who volunteer their solutions to the Seekers. Anyone with interest and Internet access can become an InnoCentive Solver. Solvers whose solutions are selected by the Seekers are compensated for their ideas by InnoCentive, which acts as broker of the process. InnoCentive recently partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation to target solutions from InnoCentive’s Solver crowd for orphan diseases and other philanthropic social initiatives. (source: Wikipedia).
iStockPhoto: is an online, royalty free, international microstock photography provider operating with the micropayment business model. Images cost between 1 and 20 credits, depending on size (with credits ranging from $.95 to $1.40 USD [1] each). General consensus attributes the pioneering of the microstock photography industry to iStockphoto, which claims to be “internet’s original member-generated image and design community.”
MapShare: TomTom’s unique Map Share technology enhances your navigation experience, because you can now make instant changes directly on your map. You can also receive similar changes made by the entire TomTom community.
MobMerge: a user friendly front-end to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Currently in beta.
Threadless: Yea, this is the best of the best non-social-good crowdsourcing effort. A clothing retailer, sells T-shirts which have been designed and rated by members of the public. They always sell out because the crowd tells them which shirts to produce.