The amazing world of 'Crowdsourcing'
Some weeks ago, we introduced you to the term in our Geek Speak of the Week segment, but this week we take a deep dive into the concept.
Crowdsourcing is an Internet phenomenon that is growing in popularity every day. Most of us have participated in a crowdsourcing project without knowing it (referred to as involuntary crowdsourcing) when we answer simple questions or play popular games.
This leveraging of the Internet masses can benefit just about anyone, whether you are looking for work or trying to solve a complex problem.
Listen in as the Data Doctors take you on a journey that could dramatically change the way you look at the Internet and how you use it.
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Original Air Dates: Feb 21, 2009 / Feb 22, 2009
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- Crowdsourcing defined
- re:CAPTCHA crowdsourcing to digitize books
- Innocentive - $5k to $1M for solving problems
- NameThis - Crowdsourcing to name products
- Amazon's Mturk - Artificial Artificial Intelligence
- Stardust@Home for those with space in their heads!
- iStockPhoto.com credited as the first commercial crowdsourcing sites
- T-Shirts designed by the community
- Need something designed? - 99Designs.com
- Want to help design a shoe? - RYZwear.com
- Pitch your comic book ideas to producers at Zeros2Heroes.com
- The world's largest competitive software development community
- Google's Image Labeler game that helps index images
- Follow the Data Docs on Twitter
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