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Five Powerful Examples of Crowdsourcing Systems
by DANIEL HOANG on DECEMBER 16, 2010

If two heads are better than one, what about a million heads. Crowdsourcing is distributing work to thousands and millions of workers, either for payment or volunteer service. Below are some of my favorite crowd sourcing examples.

1. Amazon Mechanical Turk

Unlike other automated

computing sourcing systems, Amazon relies on human beings to perform small tasks. When combined, hundreds of thousands of individuals perform tasks for a few cents to dollars. Some example tasks could be finding an image of a Point of Interest and uploading it.

2. Wikipedia

This online encyclopedia is completely

volunteer written. Anyone can make changes and update the site. Surprisingly, there is virtually no spam on the site. The close knit community keeps everything at bay. There s always someone that s an expert in one narrow subject. The site is constantly updated and a go to source for information. 3. 4. OpenOffice - Through a volunteer community, OpenOffice has developed an open source Microsoft Office replacement. The volunteers include programmers, quality control reviewers, user experience, writing, and marketing.

5. BOINC - UC Berkley developed this platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing. Users signup for various scientific research projects such as SETI (finding green men on Mars). Pieces of data are transmitted to

volunteer computers for computation and sent back to the lab for compilation. Most users don t fully use their computers potential. This project allows those unused processing power to combine into one massive supercomputer.

6. StumbleUpon - Like other voting sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon users submit interesting URLs and they get voted up and down. The popular ones particulate up the stream and become headline stories. This is how viral marketing sites get top hits.

Summary Discusses some of the most powerful crowdsourcing systems like Amazon Mechanical Turk, Wikipedia, OpenOffice, BOINC, StumbleUpon

Description If two heads are better than one, what about a million heads. Crowdsourcing is distributing work to thousands and millions of workers, either for payment or volunteer service.

Tags: and marketing, Crowdsourcing, programmers, quality control reviewers, user experience, viral marketing, volunteer computing, writing

Posted by Luis Enrique Morales

Dec 18, 2010 03:19 pm GMT Viewed 2815 times

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