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The ability to purchase part of a professional’s time has obvious advantages for companies and individuals striving to be agile, but it is also impacting the ability of small organizations to...
Having proven its worth in high scale, high demand environments, Linux is today being chosen time and again by cloud providers and their customers. Where the likes of Amazon and Google once...
Six Degrees Group is a place where teamwork, collaboration and co-operation drive innovation and excellence. They provide integrated managed data services linking people, places and clouds.Six...
A few weeks ago, I was attending the NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud. There, I ran into the NIST definition of cloud computing (PDF).
After reading it, I felt that it would be a nice exercise to transform the definition into something similar for the dual area of "cloud labor" (a.k.a. crowdsourcing).
Cloud labor is quietly but surely changing the way businesses operate by making completing tasks cheaper, faster, and more manageable. Today, new platforms are attempting to bridge the gap between the freelance and crowdsource models of cloud labor, hoping to get the advantages of both and to minimize each other’s shortcomings.
Smartsheet can help manage projects from marketing campaigns to product launches, business operations, sales pipelines, strategic planning and HR initiatives. The crowdsourcing tool also offers...
Cloud Shopper is one of the newest crowdsourcing websites that may just revolutionize the online shopping experience. Launched on December 15, 2010, the new kid on the block adopts the slogan “Everything is better with Friends” and uses this concept to create an interactive solution for users who are invited to Crowdsource the views of their friends.
Freedom OSS understands Enterprise challenges when it comes to security, SLA requirements and manageability. Freedom OSS will develop a practical and achievable Cloud strategy for your...
Enterprise Crowdsourcing: The Shift from Jobs to Tasks can Reduce your Labor Costs by 30%. Companies are looking for new ways to reduce the cost of getting work done. Companies have hired...
Systems management software and support is a huge market, but few if any legacy vendors have products and knowledge that easily translate into webscale environments. Facebook could stand to make...
I am seeking a WordPress plugin that can be installed to operate a crowd funding website. Must be compatible with WordPress 3.3. I am using a beta plugin but it is not working properly on my...
This is a summary of South by Southwest’s talk “Getting a Crowd to Work for You: For Pay or Play?” featuring CrowdFlower founder Lukas Biewald and Kaggle founder Anthony Goldsbloom. They discussed how crowdsource work is transforming traditional business and research, provided background on their companies, and offered insights on the motivations of people involved with crowdsourcing.
Check Point has launched ThreatCloud – a tool built into the company’s new GAiA operating system to let users share threat information with one another. The security company is trying to get...
Over just the last few years, the wait times in between assigning a task to the crowd and a cloud laborer actually getting started on it have shrunk from hours to minutes to seconds. Now research from MIT and Adobe's Advanced Technology Labs claims to have reduced the wait to milliseconds, creating for all practical purposes, a real-time crowd on demand.
Panos Ipeirotis was experimenting with crowdsourcing. He wanted to see how well lots of people could identify images. So he posted 25,000 images to Amazon's S3 storage cloud, known for being...
A deep dive into oDesk's data on the world of work provides some dramatic visualizations of what the crowdsourcing world actually looks like.
Turning your customers into a de facto focus group is one thing, but turning to the crowd for more serious functionality and usability testing is quite another. That simple fact led eBay Europe to extend their software quality engineering program by adding crowd testing through passbrains.com.The Switzerland-based company is part of PASS Technologies, which operates a crowd of professional software testers from India, South America and Eastern Europe. (Sponsored post)
Enterprise cloud labor company CrowdSource announced this morning its $12.5 million Series A funding round led by Highland Capital Partners. The St.Louis-based company will use the cash infusion to continue growing its operations.
Microsoft, arguably the most important company in the world when it comes to driving productivity for both businesses and consumers, recently launched Windows 8 and is now looking to get more involved in the world of crowdsourcing, particularly the areas of cloud labor and microtasking.
Crunching the numbers to try and decipher how much Amazon's cloud labor platform is worth.
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.
