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Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a """"crowd""""), through an open call. This book is your ultimate resource for Crowdsourcing. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Crowdsourcing right away, covering: Crowdsourcing, CloudCrowd, Servio, Collaborative translation, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Article One Partners, BlooSee, BlueServo, Bossa (computing), Citizen Weather Observer Program, Closed innovation, Steve Coast, CrowdFlower, DARPA Grand Challenge, DARPA Network Challenge, Dell IdeaStorm, Digital sweatshop, Distributed Proofreaders, Distributed thinking, Experience Project, FamilySearch Indexing, Funding4Learning, Genius Crowds, Giveo, Google Lunar X Prize, I-Cube Systems, Ideawicket, Indiegogo, InnoCentive, Innovation Exchange, IStockphoto, Kickstarter, Know-How Trading, Learning to love you more, Lectorium, LibriVox, List of crowdsourcing projects, Longitude prize, Maneno, Mass collaboration, Memrise, Microtask, Mygengo, MyStock, Netflix Prize, NineSigma, NotchUp, Open innovation, Open innovation intermediary, OpenSeaMap, OpenStreetMap, PageRank, Pea galaxy, Peerbackers, Phylo (video game), Pitching engine, Pledgemusic, Quirky, ReCAPTCHA, Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes, RocketHub, SeeClickFix, Spigit, Spot.us, TurKit, Ubiquitous Human Computing, Urtak, Ushahidi, Utest, WBEW, Wikimedia Foundation, The Wisdom of Crowds, Wisdom of the crowd, World Water Monitoring Day, Wreckamovie, Yet2.com, YouComm News, YouCut, Zooppa This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Crowdsourcing. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Crowdsourcing with the objectivity of experienced professionals.

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