Had a great conversation with CrowdFlower. CrowdFlower is all about making casual or crowd labor reliable. There is a whole new economy being built around the crowdsourcing of labor. This new marketplace is initiating an entire economy of spending around work that could not previously be done online – changing the workforce of tomorrow.
Jobs ranging from research and medical transcription to data entry and content moderation can be crowdsourced to the online workforce.
Computers are great for doing a lot of things fast, but certain jobs need people power.
Crowdsourcing labor will vastly change the way people and businesses work over the next decade.
For workers, it will leave zero room for discrimination (companies won’t even know who is doing the task) and create a complete meritocracy: people getting paid strictly based on the quality and speed of their work.
For businesses, the cloud labor force can help them save money and time while still using real people (and with IDC predicting that IT cloud services will reach $42B by 2012, there is a massive movement happening).
Several dating sites use Crowdflower to manage their user-created content (profiles, photos, etc.) Check them out and tell them you heard about them here.
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Photochecking is a job that’s very hard to imagine computers doing better, though I’m sure they will one day. It makes sense to crowdsource it.