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Two more financings have been announced this past week for ChallengePost and oBaz. Momentum in the space continues.

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What You Need to Read This Week

Lightbank-Backed oBaz Launches Crowdsourced Haggling Service
By Leena Rao, TechCrunch

Crowdsourced haggling seems to be a stretch title for this one — I’d call it more like a user-generated Woot. Either way, it was kind of inevitable we’d see something like this and will probably see a bunch more. They are trying to haggle for discounts on iPads – good luck guys!

Crowdsourcing Platform ChallengePost Raises $4 Million
By Peter Kafka, AllThingsD

Opus Capital led a $4M Series-A round in ChallengePost to take on Innocentive in the Open Innovation space. There are 14 interesting challenges going on right now.

“Towards a New Taxonomy”
By Jeff Howe, Crowdsourcing.org

Thoughtful piece that is worth reading. This is a significant debate in the community right now.

With Skillshare, everyone can be a teacher
By Ryan Kim, GigaOM

This one is a little more P2P, but I’d consider it in the “cloud labor” part of Jeff’s taxonomy. And if you want to go sailing, check out my sailing class for entrepreneurs.

Crowdsourcing Teems with Promise
From Bloomberg Businessweek

Preaching to the choir.