Crowd Creativity
Quite soon users of Microsoft’s search engine Bing will have access to 3D panoramas photos taken by the crowd and shared through Gigwalk’s mobile app. This great push towards a crowdsourced initiative was made possible as a result of an agreement between the giant Microsoft and Gigwalk, a company just nine weeks old, from Mountain View, CA. The agreement was announced this week.
Gigwalk mobile app instantly connects businesses to an on-demand, tech-savvy mobile workforce (Gigwalkers) who gets paid to use their iPhone to collect, capture and report real-world data -- such as verifying a street name, photographing a menu, reporting on red-light cameras, or confirming product placements in stores -- while going about their everyday activities. They called tasks Gigs.
"By combining Gigwalk's tech-savvy mobile force with our popular Photosynth app, we're able to add immersive panoramas to Bing local search results, so people can accurately see the details of a business such as a store or restaurant, " said David Gedye, lead program manager of Bing Mobile. "Gigwalk's network delivers high-quality results, often within 24 hours, and that's hard to beat," he added.
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