April 22nd, 2011 by
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Join us at the Stanford Institute of Design on Tuesday, May 3, for a night of networking, interactive presentations, and thought-provoking conversations.
The following speakers will discuss developments in modern crowdsourcing work, how this impacts the world of design, and demonstrate their latest findings:
April 20th, 2011 by
Washington Square Park
We’re back from our NYC Meetup. If you missed the event, you can see the presentations here.
Here are a few kind words from one of the presenters, John Horton, Staff Economist at oDesk:
“I really like how crowdsourcing/remote work is simultaneously a hot topic in both academia and industry/entrepreneurship. It’s fairly rare to have practitioners (startups, non-profits, etc.) interacting so positively and so frequently with researchers. This dynamic was definitely on display at the event. And kudos to CrowdFlower for sponsoring and promoting these — I think they’re doing a real service.”
And here’s what some of the attendees had to say.
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April 8th, 2011 by
After hearing that our friends at Citizen Effect were sponsoring Brackets with Benefits, a cool new March Madness pool where the proceeds from all the gambling go to one of the many awesome community development projects they support, we thought it would be fun to get involved. Considering how most people** watched their brackets go up in flames by the time the Sweet Sixteen rolled around, we thought it would be fun to give everyone a second chance to play.
We teamed up with Citizen Effect to invite all Brackets with Benefits participants, as well as the general public, to pick the results of the Sweet Sixteen and Final Four, a total of 10 games. We had one clear winner, who correctly predicted the outcome of 8 games (and missed Duke/Arizona and Florida/BYU, for those keeping track at home) and will be going home with a fancy new camcorder. For what it’s worth, the aggregated response of the crowd correctly picked 7 games.
In a tournament full of upsets, there were two games that surprised our participants most. Not surprisingly, these were the games where the two #1 seeds (Duke and Ohio State) lost in the Sweet Sixteen, which just under 10 percent of people picked. There was one person from Glenolden, PA (perhaps an embittered Villanova fan?) who picked both Duke and Ohio State to lose, but ended up picking only three other games correctly.
All in all, a fun little experiment. We want to send a big thanks to our friends over at Citizen Effect for putting together the pool and inviting us to participate.
March 30th, 2011 by
Couldn’t make the March Meetup at CrowdFlower? Check out the video highlights below.
If you like what you see above, join our Crowdsourcing Work Meetup Group for news on upcoming Meetups.
March 22nd, 2011 by
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It’s meetup time again here at CrowdFlower. We will have a great lineup of speakers here this Wednesday, March 23. Come by to see: