Leveraging of a distributed virtual labor pool, available on-demand to fulfill a range of tasks from simple to complex. Crowdsourcing is used to connect labor demand and supply. Virtual workers perform activities that range from simple to specialized tasks.
Dale McCarthy, founder of Foundry, says the site caters for all types of video production, from web advertising and web how-to videos to corporate videos and high-end TVCs. “As a seasoned...
Dale McCarthy, founder of Foundry, says the site caters for all types of video production, from web advertising and web how-to videos to corporate videos and high-end TVCs. “As a seasoned...
For some reason, there's been a recent boost in projects looking to serve the public interest using crowdsourcing. Perhaps April showers brings May do-gooding. Here's 4 projects in particular that have caught my eye of late:
Occassionally, we ask the people behind crowdsourcing platforms and other initiatives to share their stories with us. We posed the following questions to Jordan Bowerman of SociallyShared.com about the platform for tapping the power of "social sales" to promote products.
Logo design contest jobs are posted on Witmart.com for free which is an attractive element to Witmart’s brand. The employer only needs to set the maximum price the company is willing to pay for the...
¿How the companies can apply the crowdsourcing? In this post we offer some possible applications, as well as show you some sucess cases that brands are having.
Leading the revolution by innovating Solucioneo has innovated crowdsourcing’s business model and methodology. Due to these changes solucioneo has been established as the first platform that allows...
The following sites provide you with shortcuts to a greater life through crowdsourcing: 1. SeeClickFix 2. PatientsLikeMe 3. Taskrabbit 4. Mygengo 5. Ushahidi 6. oDesk 7. 99designs 8....
The competition sees overclocking and hardware enthusiast communities assemble special teams, each of which aim to do as much work as possible for Folding@home, the crowdsourced distributed...
Witmart.com is a global online crowdsourcing service market that aims to provide Employers and Providers with the most reliable marketplace to post and find jobs. Millions of freelancing experts...
Scripted.com – a marketplace for businesses to hire freelance writers, recently closed a $1M seed round led by an institution (Crosslink Capital). Here are some ideas on how To raise a $1M Seed...
In the third installment of Crowdsourcing.org's From the Crowd podcast, editor Eric Mack spoke with Clickworker CEO Christian Rozsenich (pictured above, on the right, with former CEO Wolfgang Kitza) about the company's growing crowd an the future of crowdsourcing worldwide.
Ross Dawson shares some of the crucial ideas that have come out of interactive discussions on crowdsourcing from recent conferences in Europe.
blur Trading 2.0 delivers a highly scalable architecture that extends blur Group’s use of social, cloud and crowd technologies to deliver a unique trading platform for the Exchange. It helps both...
WeGoLook offers services to consumers to help protect them from being taken advantage of by "tech bullies" - or internet scammers. Many of these tech bullies post fake listings or...
Crowdsourced translation platform Amara -- formerly known as Universal Subtitles -- just got a big vote of confidence from the Mozilla and Knight Foundations, in the form of $1 million in funding.
The attractiveness of “peer production”, freeing people from the compulsive and pathogenic ways of companies, is the real driving force of exodus, even if start-ups can also find themselves...
According to a press release, 99Designs: "the largest online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design services is challenging its own community of more than 150,000 graphic designers...
An interview with OurGoods founder, Caroline Woolard. OurGoods is a barter network for creative people, connecting artists, designers and craftspeople in order to trade skills, spaces and...
Neighbor Favor is a community delivery service for college students. Ask favors from friends and neighbors and they will pick up anything at your local store.
Now following in the footsteps of Sherrands, RunMyErrand and DoMyStuff.com comes NeighborFavor, a site that lets college students earn cash by helping each other with their shopping.
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
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CROWDFUNDING INDUSTRY REPORT (ABRIDGED VERSION): Market Trends, Composition and Crowdfunding Platforms
