Crowdsourcing's Champions (GE, OMC, SNE, WEN) Crowdsourcing is all the rage these days, another aspect of the cloud computing proliferation that has companies doing crazy things. Even if you have never heard of it, you have probably purchased a product that was developed using crowdsourcing or have been directly involved yourself. Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of idea generation or tasks that would normally be tackled by employed workers or contractors for a particular company. The task or idea is outsourced to the masses via the Internet or social media technology. Crowdsourcing can be more than just a task or an idea. See, crowdsourcing is fun and it can be very profitable and cost favorable for many companies. salesforce.com (Nasdaq: CRM ) Salesforce.com is one of the undisputed leaders in the cloud computing space, and it has used its expertise to build and acquire successful crowdsourcing ideas and applications.
Customers Over a 1000 worldwide renowned brands use Spigit to drive innovation and business growth. Spigit users worldwide leverage our Cloud based infrastructure, platform and applications to power their Innovation networks. They leverage the Spigit platform, as a corporate social network, for internal innovation, for external partner and customer idea portals, and for community driven contests and promotions. Over 1000 companies use Spigit for driving business growth Crowdsourcing specific microtasks Since the first-ever Mechanical Turk meetup a year ago, there has been an explosion in crowdsourcing services and a well-attended conference in San Francisco. I remain enthusiastic about crowdsourcing, but the number of companies has me worried about quality of work. Fortunately specialization is already occurring, so for particular tasks there are companies out there ready to provide high-quality service. One company that recently caught my eye is Helsinki (and SF) based Microtask. Founded by Computer Graphics (CG) and Computer Vision (CV) veterans, Microtask has chosen to focus in a few areas where CG and CV are relevant. Aside from speech transcription, they currently provide form-processing (digitizing hand-written forms) and archive digitization services, and have plans to expand into image categorization and video indexing in the near future. A few things about the Microtask platform are worth highlighting.
Google - Student Survey Dynamic Lookup Table The list of all universities in the United States is over 4000. Obviously a list with 4000 items in a drop-down list is not feasible. It is important to note that this approach could have also been repeated one more time . asking users to input a city, zipcode or other geographical marker to further winnow down the options. After students identify the state and their school, the page refreshes and they are presented with a series of questions about their campus email service (what they like, what they don.t like, what other features they would want, etc.). Sophisticated Reporting Functionality Because QuestionPro already has sophisticated reporting capabilities built-in to its hosted application, running reports on segments of the data is easy. In this manner, Google can very quickly and easily compare responses that help drive business decisions. In addition to making inputting easier and outputs more robust, Google did something very Google-like.
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