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Lilly Irani, a PhD candidate in informatics at the University of California at Irvine who has studied crowd-labor, says these unrepresented workers remain ripe for exploitation. After all, someone...
Crowdsourcing relies on the crowd for its very existence. Legal intervention can only buttress and protect the organized efforts of crowd workers; it cannot replace those efforts. If crowd workers...
Crowd labor currently has some limitations — most offerings depend on specific platforms from individual vendors, and need to be more scalable. Once these limitations are overcome, opportunities...
The crowdsourcing of basic knowledge tasks is a small but rapidly growing means for organizations to cost efficiently complete low value, repetitive work. However, recent research indicates that...
GigaOM Pro, the technology research group of GigaOM, has published a new Sector RoadMap report titled Crowd Labor Platforms in 2012. The report assesses the continuing evolution and competitive...
I am proud to bring you the first episode in a three part series culminating in a downloadable PDF of the whole piece on The Crowd Computing Revolution and the redesign of work that is now possible...
I am proud to bring you the second episode of The Crowd Computing Revolution from this three part series culminating in a downloadable PDF of the whole piece. In this episode we continue to...
Crowd-funding sites first appeared about a decade ago, linking fundraisers to large pools of donors. Rather than a return on investment, small companies that raise money in this fashion typically...
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.
Few tips and best practices in creating communities out of your challenge participants: *Include People Outside of Your Core Discipline/Establishment *Give them feedback *Give them a chance...
Crowdsourcers are generally motivated as the concept allows them to elicit large numbers of solutions via cheap labor. Benefits also include access to a wide array of talent and potentially better...
I am proud to bring you the final episode of the three part series on The Crowd Computing Revolution culminating in a downloadable PDF of the whole piece. In this final part of the series we will...
The results of the study indicated that the desire to make money, develop individual skills, and to have fun were the strongest motivators for participation at iStockphoto, and that the crowd at...
In this presentation, John Horton suggests 3 things that economists and computer scientists should do for the online labor market: Increase demand for online work - Create work amenable to...
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...
Finding the right crowdsourcing platform which best fits your needs is simple. There are several good companies that tap the power of many people to get the work done. A few crowdsourcing...
Google's non-profit arm, Google.org, has given over a million dollars to Samasource, which seeks to connect women and youth in the poorest corners of the world with steady work in the form of small tasks performed online.
American companies will soon hire millions of designers, coders, writers, marketers, and other skilled people from all over the world, says Ross Dawson, co-author of the just-released book...
As part of a recent collaboration with KL Communications, Crowdsourcing.org examined the five different kinds of crowdsourcing using sentiment analysis. This third report (in a six-article series) aims to determine how the world’s social media users feel about the 15 top Cloud Labor platforms.
We've already examined how the online public seems to feel about Crowdfunding, as well as Cloud Labor. Now, this week we're going to look at the data for Crowd Creativity platforms.
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