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site Cloud Labor / Micro-tasksCrowdFlower was founded by Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt in 2007. CrowdFlower is headquartered in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. With multiple labor channels, CrowdFlower...
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CrowdFlower was founded by Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt in 2007. CrowdFlower is headquartered in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. With multiple labor channels, CrowdFlower...
CrowdFlower is among only 80 companies being recognized for outstanding growth and momentum out of 2,600 San Francisco area privately-held technology businesses evaluated by Lead411, an...
CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald and Kaggle Founder and Chief Executive Officer Anthony Goldbloom, two visionaries in the burgeoning crowdsourcing industry, will lead the discussion entitled...
During the past 18 months, Crowdsortium has expanded from 16 to 150 member companies. CrowdFlower signs up as the first Premium Member; membership pledges fund the growth of the organization....
The CrowdFlower Cloud Module, the latest addition to the Parse ecosystem, gives Parse application developers access to RTFM or Real Time Foto Moderation. Many applications include photo sharing...
Now, the startup is starting to offer industry and task specific offerings to businesses. A few months ago, CrowdFlower released a data collection offering that verifies business listings and local...
Founded in 2007, CrowdFlower provides Labor-on-Demand to help companies route high-volume, repetitive tasks to a massively distributed global workforce. They uses statistically backed,...
One important thing CrowdFlower brings to the party today is that they’re the organizers behind the biggest crowdsourcing gathering around: CrowdConf, to be held Nov. 1-2 at the Mission Bay...
Mollie Allick, director of PR and events for CrowdFlower, where they take large datasets and break them down into small tasks and distribute them to a labor force across the Internet.
According to Crowdflower Yelp’s project struggled to meet enterprise accuracy standards not because of a lack of brains or a lack of good contributors but in part because the Yelp team did not have...
Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas Biewald was a senior scientist and manager within the ranking and management team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later...
“Crowdsourcing is no longer limited to early adopter companies,” says Lukas Biewald, founder and executive chairman of CrowdFlower. “The scale and technology only available in CrowdFlower's...
CrowdConf 2011 Video highlights include: -- Keynotes from Quora founder Charlie Cheever and Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and Coffee & Power; -- Panels covering a wide range...
CrowdFlower first announced RTFM last month, pitching it as a self-serve tool that app developers can use to tap into the crowd and make sure the images shared by their users are appropriate....
With the amount of pictures uploaded and shared electronically, online companies are pressed with the issue of providing a safe, user-friendly environment, while also battling high costs to...
500 Startups seeks to invest $250,000 which it will share amongst the companies that look to use the processes of CrowdFlower for information gathering and analysis.
CrowdFlower’s second round of funding will be used to spin out additional niche services for outsourcing. That means a majority of the funding will be used to hire additional engineers and staff...
In the context of experimentation, CrowdFlower decided against using Gold to minimize any selection bias among contributors. However, this makes it difficult to apply these results to enterprise...
CrowdFlower is not the only company engaging legions of Internet workers. CrowdFlower’s distinguishing secret sauce is its quality-control technology (algorithms and procedures) for filtering and...
According to Tikhon Bernstam, co-founder of Parse, a provider of cloud-based services for mobile application developers, they love CrowdFlower’s new, real time image moderation application. He...