Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Delegating a task to a large diffuse group, usually without substantial monetary compensation.
Examples
“In 2009, the term crowdsourcing became ubiquitous and Twitter empowered anyone with a cell phone to report on his surroundings.”
Chris Savage: County Commissioner Brings Swastika Sign To US Rep. Schauer Health Care Rally
“I was certainly not the first to be pranked this way - there are a slew of cases of angry pharmacists, disgruntled neighbors, and scorned ex-boyfriends using sites like Craigslist to recruit unwitting accomplices in their acts of revenge - I coined the term "crowdsourcing revenge" to describe the practice.”
“Well before the term "crowdsourcing" arose, Consumer Reports supplemented its lab testing with surveys of subscribers, asking them to report on their experiences with various products.”
“The term crowdsourcing is only a few years old, but the idea's been around for a decade.”
“By "outsourcing" this tedious job to the "crowds" on the web hence the name "crowdsourcing" his system has been able to digitize old texts far more cost effectively and quickly than any other previously existing system.”
The Huffington Post: Joe Kutchera: Translate the Web While Learning a New Language
“But a few rounds of crowdsourcing from the comment threads of AM or Small Wars Journal can probably fix that.”
“He proceeds to lay out the issues relating to citizen participation, explaining how a noble experiment in crowdsourcing, like Mechanical Turk, can be manipulated into a Captcha Sweatshop [site].”
Global Voices in English » Iranian officials ‘crowd-source’ protester identities
“Also, what bothers me a little about crowdsourcing is that you have little control over the final quality of the delivery.”
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Crowdsourced translation - Twitter jumps on the bandwagon
“Is this just a model then to sucker people into freely giving up their content for an entity to make money off the masses, like the new buzzword crowdsourcing?”
“If you want to be fancy, you could call it "crowdsourcing" - a term invented by Jeff Howe in a 2006 Wired magazine article for the process of allocating tasks usually performed by individuals to a group of people, thus calling upon communal intelligence.”
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Web Words to Know
Neologisms, portmanteau, and adapted words that pertain to the internet and technology.
collective intell..., wiki, webinar, web 2.0, viral, unconference, tweetup, tweet, trend, timeline, retweet, podcast and 15 more...
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words web 2.0 taught me
folksonomy, crowdsourcing, meh, social bookmarking, social networking, wikipediholic, meta
bilby See roo hullabaloo. Mar 12, 2009
ecbrenner "Like the long tail before it, crowdsourcing isn't necessarily a new idea, but rather a new name for an existing collection of concepts. In this case, crowdsourcing is the approach to business practices -- especially creation -- that fling open the doors to anyone and everyone interested in participating. Crowdsourcing is the heart and soul of the open source community, and it's this belief in the ability of large, noncentralized groups of people to organize and create something great, solve difficult problems, and accomplish seemingly insurmountable tasks." --Gary Stein, "Crowdsourcing"
Mar 11, 2009
pshaw http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/crowdsourcing_million_heads.php Mar 23, 2007