Transit app Moovit takes a page from Waze’s crowdsourcing playbook
Tweet Waze, one of our favorite mobile apps, has proven that crowdsourced data can become the basis of a popular …
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How startup Alegion aims to humanize crowdsourcing
Tweet There’s man and there’s machine. And then there’s Alegion. The Mill Creek, Wash.-based startup launched at Amazon Web Services’ …
Amanda Palmer brouhaha exposes the dark side of crowdsourcing
Tweet Is it right to ask for (and use) free labor? That’s the question that erupted after Amanda Palmer, former …
Reddit as journalism: Crowdsourcing an interview with the President
Tweet Reddit, the link-sharing web community that more or less took over from Digg as the “front page of the …
Netflix opens crowd-sourcing of subtitles on a small scale
Tweet Netflix has opened a small experiment for crowd-sourcing subtitles, in order to assess the possibility of making this their …