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This article, written exclusively for Crowdsourcing.org, comes from a crowd member. We asked the new crowdsourced blog writing service, Blogmutt, to write a post, so Blogmutt CEO Scott Yates turned to one of Blogmutt's best writers to craft a post for us here. The writer is Ruth Bremer.
Blogmutt is a blog writing service that uses the power of crowdsourcing to create posts for businesses that have sites, but not enough time in the day to write blog posts for themselves. Our...
Kibin provides crowdsourced proofreading service. Kibin works like this: You upload your document (in DOC, RTF, or TXT format), then wait for a volunteer editor to give it a once-over. You pay...
It is no secret that a troll is not only a supernatural being in Scandinavian folklore, but also an Internet user who indirectly provokes communities into arguments, causing confusion and...
Technorati was founded to help bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the global online conversation. Founded as the first blog search engine, Technorati has expanded to a...
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...
The new site gives Crowd Content a fresh look and provides more detailed information for clients and potential clients. Specifically, take a look at the Services and Who We Help areas to learn...
Crowdsourcing website-Quora has launched a blog service that it hopes will allow more users to share in-depth knowledge about topics that they’re passionate about. The company believes that...
All of eleven workshop presentations were about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk , a crowdsourcing marketplace platform. Mechanical Turk is a network service that allows customers to recruit a lot of...
To find their crowdsourced workers, some companies hold contests to help them come up with a new product or service, while others use online communities of tech professionals. “A company usually...
Eli Perez writes in to discuss the variety of ways businesses can put the crowd to work for them. He highlights four specific platforms: Needle, Field Agent, SpigitEngage, and Compendium.
I’d like to call your attention to a book with writings from several of our contributing authors, a foreword from Henry Chesbrough, and edited by Innovation Excellence contributor Paul Sloane – A...
The MCPC conference series started out in 2001 as a bi-annual conference devoted to mass customization & personalization. The content has broadened in recent years, including also customer co-creation, user innovation, and other strategies of customer-driven value creation (hence, MCPC = Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation"). In 2011, the conference will bridge MCPC with a topic that has driven and inspired the field since several years: open innovation.
As the web industry continues to gain momentum in Indonesia, there are hundreds of newly established IT startups that are leveraging the web to deliver their products and services. Some have been very successful and have become highly profitable - GantiBaju.com is a prominent example. Using crowdsourcing, GantiBaju.com is one of the most exciting startups in Indonesia. In its first year, GantiBaju.com has won several awards including Asia's Top 10 Best Web Apps by Singtel Accelerate in Singapore, and boasts more than $22,000 in monthly revenue.
If you ask a bunch of political journalists to identify the biggest change in political reporting this election cycle, the answer comes in a short burst: "Twitter!" The microblogging...
Matt Barrie the CEO of Freelancer.com, shares some key points: *80% of the worlds population is about to join the Internet *More people in the world have capacity to provide labour...
Every change in a system encounters resistance, especially those changes which make the most sense. In our new information economy, where value is derived from the richness of our networks and the novel ways in which we find to organize information and connections, a matching capital formation mechanism makes sense. So it is no surprise that crowdfunding, an organic response to service capital needs within our new economy, is growing exponentially. And it's quite anticipated that it should meet resistance.
The resistance to crowdfunding comes in the form of the "fraud bogeyman." Apparently, this phantom stalks only unregistered investments, waiting to emerge from the shadows and steal all of our money. Of course, fear is a potent tool (for better or for worse), and wherever it's sold, one can usually quickly find a lack of real arguments. For example, inherent in a fraudster's ability to steal all of our money via crowdfunding, is someone who invests all of his or her money in one business. And yet, I cannot find a single person who thinks that doing so is a good idea. (If you find such a mythical person, please have them write a blog post about it, and forward me a link!)
The fraud bogeyman has been appearing in a number of places recently, including big media sites and small blogs alike. The number of concurrent mentions of the words 'portfolio' or 'diversification' in the same articles ... ZERO. As usual, fear, uncertainty and doubt are delivered in a vacuum, without any relativity or context. How does anyone lose all of their money on fraud when they're diversified? That's an inconvenient question, of course.
Luis von Ahn wants to translate the web — all of it. To call him ambitious is an understatement. In a TED Talk that was originally uploaded to YouTube in April 2011, von Ahn introduced Duolingo, a crowdsourced translation project, and boldly proclaimed that with one million users, the site could help to convert the entirety of Wikipedia into Spanish in 80 hours. Free of charge. Even with a slightly more modest prediction of 100,000 users, the task would be completed within five weeks. What von Ahn, an entrepreneur and computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was proposing, and what Duolingo is now beginning to offer in a private beta, is a crowdsourced translation service that provides every volunteer with a service of their own. What he envisions is a tool that will not just revolutionize the Internet, but education itself.
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...
The Ouya project, an ambitious undertaking to create a hacker-friendly game console, today surpassed $5 million raised on crowdfunding website Kickstarter. Despite Ouya’s warm reception from thousands of Kickstarter backers — at the time of writing, 39,337 backers have contributed $5,020,639 to the project, which has 22 days left to raise additional funds — some tech journalists lambaste the company for its overly optimistic launch plans.
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