by David Evans on December 14, 2009 in Profiles
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 [...]
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content management,
crowdsourcing
by David Evans on August 8, 2008 in Profiles
As you may or may not know, several years ago I started a company called ProfileDoctor. We built a service that enabled live editors to review dating profiles and make suggestions in improvements. While I thoroughly enjoyed building up the company I ended up getting side-tracked by consulting projects in the dating industry and shelved [...]
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crowdsourcing
Happy National Singles Week. Did you know that Operation Match, the first example computer matchmaking, took place in 1965?
Behold, a fascinating article in the The New York Times by Ian Ayres about Super Crunchers, which focuses on the matching systems that power eHarmony, PerfectMatch, True and Yahoo! Personals.
This is the best overview of how dating [...]
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crowdsourcing,
Meyers_briggs,
personality-testing,
regression,
super_crunching