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document Distributed KnowledgeTask 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,...
document Distributed KnowledgeCrowdsourcing 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.
document Distributed KnowledgeTaskTurtle — 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...
document Cloud LaborCrowdsourcing 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...
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...
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...
article Cloud LaborThis 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...
article ToolsThe 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...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationCrowdsourcing 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.
blog Open Innovation, ToolsProducteev 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...
site Cloud Labor / Micro-tasksAsk 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...
site Cloud Labor / Micro-tasksGiggo 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...
document Cloud Labor, ToolsDespite 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...
document Cloud Labor, ToolsThe 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...
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...
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...
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...
site Cloud Labor / Micro-tasksCloudCrowd 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...
ToolsIn 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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