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New Cities Foundation Launches Task Force on Connected Commuting in San Jose, California
document Distributed Knowledge

Task Force membersinclude NCF Founding Member Ericsson, San Jose's Department of Transportation, the University of Berkeley, MIT, Orange Telecom and two start-up mobile phone app companies,...

Samuel BennettNov 25, 2011 12:54 am GMT772 views
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New Cities Foundation Launches Task Force on Connected Commuting in San Jose, California
18 Tasks You Can Crowdsource
document Distributed Knowledge

Crowdsourcing is a way of getting work done that can help you save time, money and free you up to get to other work at hand.

Tim SatterthwaiteDec 07, 2010 05:15 pm GMT2963 views
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18 Tasks You Can Crowdsource
CrowdFlower Marks Crowdsourcing Milestone: More than 100 Million Tasks Performed
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation, Tools

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,...

Fritz SchaeferMay 19, 2011 03:12 pm GMT2693 views
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CrowdFlower Marks Crowdsourcing Milestone: More than 100 Million Tasks Performed
Online marketplace connects the homeless with tasks in exchange for food
document Distributed Knowledge

TaskTurtle — which is currently in beta — enables users to crowdsource skilled and under-utilized workers to carryout household tasks, for example painting a garage door. Users can post their task...

Harshida PatelDec 07, 2011 03:15 pm GMT888 views
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Online marketplace connects the homeless with tasks in exchange for food
Crowdsourcing: Efficient Tasking for Entrepreneurs?
document Cloud Labor

Crowdsourcing companies include ones that focus more on professional services, such as Elance.com and Guru.com, and ones that focus more on menial and/or man-hour intensive tasks such as the iPhone...

Samuel BennettFeb 09, 2012 12:59 am GMT2754 views
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Crowdsourcing: Efficient Tasking for Entrepreneurs?
Introducing PyBossa – the open-source micro-tasking platform
document Distributed Knowledge

PyBossa is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human...

Pablo BracciniJun 08, 2012 12:47 pm GMT720 views
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Introducing PyBossa – the open-source micro-tasking platform
At online marketplace for $5 tasks, proceeds get donated to charity
document Cloud Labor

Charitably minded consumers begin by offering some service or task on Raise5 for a flat rate of CAD 5 — teaching a 15-minute French lesson, for example, or setting up a new laptop. When they...

Rebecca GutierrezJul 10, 2012 09:46 pm GMT1271 views
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At online marketplace for $5 tasks, proceeds get donated to charity
Paid Task App Gigwalk Raises $6M From August Capital, Greylock; Expands Deal With Microsoft
article Cloud Labor

This round of funding will be used to extend and enhance Gigwalk’s marketplace and mobile technology. One area where the startup is exploring is creating an algorithm to match Gigwalkers with the...

Jason RobbinsOct 23, 2012 01:53 am GMT1399 views
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Paid Task App Gigwalk Raises $6M From August Capital, Greylock; Expands Deal With Microsoft
Task Me Now wins Startup Weekend in Cork for crowdsourcing app
article Tools

The winning start-up, Task Me Now, impressed the judges for its business strategy for mobile apps to allow businesses to crowdsource for expertise. The start-up's co-founders Robin...

Jason RobbinsApr 15, 2013 01:00 am GMT1500 views
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Task Me Now wins Startup Weekend in Cork for crowdsourcing app
Crowdsourcing and the Task Unification Tool
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing has a crowd of critics. Crowdsourcing is the notion of distributed problem-solving where problems are broadcast to large groups of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions.

Benjamin FosselDec 12, 2010 11:13 am GMT3782 views
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Crowdsourcing and the Task Unification Tool
Crowdsourcing a task on Producteev: online collaboration without limits
blog Open Innovation, Tools

Producteev offers the following: For Producteev users, Any created task can be made public in one click. Simply select the facebook or twitter icon in the task details. A short URL for the...

Sebastian BlancaJun 28, 2011 09:03 pm GMT1266 views
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Crowdsourcing a task on Producteev: online collaboration without limits
Ask For Task
site Cloud Labor / Micro-tasks

Ask for Task is an online service platform where, rather than relying on classified website`s or putting off until it’s too late; you can now just post a task on Ask for Task and get it done...

Ask For TaskApr 07, 2012 05:35 am GMT1524 views
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Ask For Task
Giggo
site Cloud Labor / Micro-tasks

Giggo is an online and mobile tasking marketplace in Canada that connects people and communities together in a safe and friendly environment. Giggo allows people to reach out to their community...

Giggo CanadaMay 22, 2012 04:12 pm GMT733 views
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Giggo
Micro jobs: Short-term tasks for quick cash appeals to many sellers and buyers
document Cloud Labor, Tools

Despite a flurry of sites featuring micro jobs, the concept of crowdsourcing isn’t new, noted Sean Wise, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Ryerson University. “Now that we’ve...

Jayne AnnMay 31, 2012 01:48 am GMT1165 views
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Micro jobs: Short-term tasks for quick cash appeals to many sellers and buyers
clickworker.com offers tasks to Finnish online jobbers
document Cloud Labor, Tools

The clickworker.com platform has been providing micro jobs in the areas of text creation, web research, translations, tagging and data categorisation for the last five years. Worldwide over 300.000...

Claire MackayDec 19, 2012 12:51 pm GMT1221 views
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clickworker.com offers tasks to Finnish online jobbers
Crowdsourcing Solutions Tackle the Top Five 2013 Mission-critical Tasks for Internet Retailers
article Distributed Knowledge

Here are the top five mission-critical tasks facilitate the consumer-centric approach to online retailing that crowdsourcing offers a host of solutions to accomplish them: #1: Effective use...

Pablo BracciniJan 05, 2013 12:57 am GMT1135 views
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Crowdsourcing Solutions Tackle the Top Five 2013 Mission-critical Tasks for Internet Retailers
Digital Humanitarian Response: Moving from Crowdsourcing to Microtasking
article Distributed Knowledge

The PyBossa , an open source platform for crowdsourcing online-volunteer presents a number of important advantages when it comes to digital humanitarian response. One advantage is the...

Fritz SchaeferJan 20, 2013 11:37 am GMT1409 views
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Digital Humanitarian Response: Moving from Crowdsourcing to Microtasking
Fancy Hands teams up with TaskRabbit to move beyond reservations and research with physical tasks
article Cloud Labor

Fancy Hands, a service which helps you do things like make reservations and research trips abroad, has announced its integration with crowdsourcing website- TaskRabbit, a network for posting and...

Pablo BracciniMar 28, 2013 03:53 am GMT1317 views
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Fancy Hands teams up with TaskRabbit to move beyond reservations and research with physical tasks
CloudCrowd
site Cloud Labor / Micro-tasks

CloudCrowd offers labor as a service through 24*7 labor-on-demand. CloudCrowd helps companies reduce costs and increase efficiency by breaking large projects into smaller tasks and distributing...

Carl EspostiOct 07, 2010 06:20 am GMT2232 views
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CloudCrowd
The future for "labor-on-demand" crowdsourcing models
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In my last post Crowdsourcing Implications for Medium and Large Businesses, I looked at some of the other uses of crowdsourcing beyond the more targeted applications that are being readily adopted by home-office entrepreneurs and small businesses. These included examples in the areas of open-innovation and customer engagement. Another crowdsourcing opportunity relates to the selective out-tasking of highly repetitive, high volume work to a distributed online, on-demand workforce.

 

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Carl EspostiDec 13, 2010 11:40 pm GMT4045 views
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