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This paper decribes the emergence of crowdsourcing in the area of applications developing and testing and how its powercan be used to leverage the creativity and diversity of a global community.
This article is for the entrepreneurs who would like to find out some ways they can utilize the knowledge of the crowd in their business.
The concept of crowdsourcing has now appeared, where work is broken up into discrete tasks and assigned to workers based around the world.
The brief definition of crowd mechanics:the incentive and engagement system designed to drive outcomes in a crowd through individual and group incentives that include both monetary and non-monetary...
The critical issue for freelancers is to find sites that allow them to earn more for their work than they could on their own. Some crowdsourcing sites are approaching this point, especially sites...
Crowdsourcing service providers estimate that in 2011 the online contract work will double itself over 2010. This has a potential to hurt local full-time employment, as well as local independent...
Crowdsourcing is highly effective because of the following benefits: 1. Cost-effectiveness 2. Time-efficiency 3. Tapping into a large talent pool 4. Paying for results 5. Improved creativity...
More than 20,000 testers in 160 countries sign on to work whenever they want, day or night. The company says top testers can make thousands of dollars per month.
One of the tenets of the open source software movement was that armies of coders and testers would fall-in and self organize driven purely by intrinsic rewards. This was driven by the notion that they could not only build it better, but that closed and restrictive practices were not in everyone’s best interest! So, it would seem that if you could harness the intrinsic motivations of this special breed of individual and further reward their performance, you might just have an unbeatable business model…..maybe uTest has discovered that model?
I was keen to find out what made uTest’s model different and, from the looks of its top name client list, what was underpinning its obvious success. I recently interviewed Matt Johnston, uTest’s Chief Marketing Officer, who shed some light on uTest’s interesting business model.
In some cases, crowdsourcing is the business. Some companies, such as Netflix, have put a mighty fine price tag on their crowdsourced efforts. Others, like Dell and Starbucks, utilize the concept...
uTest announce today three community-driven programs that may represent a paradigm change in mechanisms that drive worker performance. While the advantages of crowdsourcing to leverage a distributed virtual on-demand labor pool, to fulfill a range of tasks from simple to complex appear apparent, it seems the model is not without flaw. Numbers of staff can be ramped-up for a fee or turned off, typically without incremental cost. However, there are challenges managing a workforce that isn’t dedicated and not paid to turn up to work at 9am each day. So how do you optimize a workforce that works voluntarily? I spoke with Matt Johnston, uTest’s CMO, who shared some insights into their leading-edge approaches for worker management in a crowdsourcing environment.
Moderated by Jim Savage (Partner at Longworth Venture Partners), the Crowdsortium Panel Discussion involved the following panel members: Jeff Howe, Contributing Editor at Wired Magazine &...
uTest will have an end-to-end suite of testing services for web, desktop or mobile apps, adding to its existing services like functional, usability and load testing. uTest CEO, Doron Reuveni says...
uTest says these 10 steps are guaranteed to help you become a better software tester. The main point in these tips is to never stop doing it. The more you continue, the more you practice, you...
Sourcing Interests Group (SIG), www.sig.org, is a membership organization that has served sourcing and outsourcing professionals from Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies throughout its 20-year...
uTest provides in-the-wild testing services that span the entire software development lifecycle--including functional, security,load,localization and usability testing.The company's...
While there needs to be standards developed to do things like protect people’s rights as new ways of working are developed, crowdsourcing is not an industry. Crowdsourcing is a tool. Instead...
A panel discussion at CrowdConf2011 Martin Gilles (The Economist) talking to Sharon Chiarella (MTurk), Niel Robertson (Crowdsortium), Matt Johnston (uTest) and Matt Fisher (LiveOps)
Based on reports, fully 90% of US online retailers did not have an explicit mobile strategy and very few online resellers have sites / experiences that are optimized for mobile. The shift to the...
With this latest round, they don’t expect to maintain their steep revenue growth… they expect to significantly increase it.
uTest will use the funds to: Open new offices in app creation hot spots, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago Develop tools that enable companies to launch better apps Explore...
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.
