SumAll: summing data across platforms
A marketing analytics startup is summing data from 42 different platforms to help small and medium sized businesses better understand correlations between social media activity and revenue.
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dunnhumby: how Tesco destroyed £1.3bn of value in 9 months
For years, dunnhumby has been the secret link between retailers, manufacturers and customers. Their model of translating customer data into actionable insight has delivered significant value to all parts of the chain. So why, then, was Tesco unable to sell the big data pioneer this year?
Working without even knowing it: ReCaptcha and Duolingo leverage unwitting crowds.
Founded by a Guatemalan crowdsourcing pioneer, ReCaptcha and Duolingo harness tiny bits of mindless human work to scan, categorize, and translate the Internet.
Minted: Using the Crowd to Define Good Design
Minted is re-imagining the online marketplace model by using crowdsourcing to curate its collection of designs
ArcBazar: A marketplace for crowdsourcing architecture and design
ArcBazar is an online crowdsourcing platform focused on design and architecture projects, enabling people to easily find designers for their projects and at the same time, doing so in a very affordable way. On the other side, compete and collaborate on different contest, enabling them to learn, participate in a community and make money!
reCAPCHA: Crowdsourcing Intelligence
reCAPCHA has digitized books and mapped the world with crowdsourcing… Now it uses humans’ comparative advantage to crowdsource the creation of a truly intelligent computer.
Glassdoor is leveraging crowds to better inform job-seekers
Since it was founded in 2008, Glassdoor has been leveraging crowd-sourcing to create a vast database of job positions, salaries, interview processes, companies’ culture, and more.
Cat-Video Lover seeks Comedic Creator: YouTube’s Dominance in Crowd Management
YouTube: where the winners become international superstars and the losers still get to laugh at a drugged up kid on his way home from the dentist.
Bill.com – Do network features mean network effects?
Is business-to-business (B2B) payments platform Bill.com competing successfully with network effects?
Is Nextdoor the next big social network?
At $1bn valuation, reaching 1/3 of U.S. communities, private social network Nextdoor has come a long a way. The company’s targeted, private approach has enabled it to build a tight community of engaged users. The platform has strong network effects and multiple options for monetization. What remains to be seen is whether Nextdoor’s network strengthens or weakens post monetization.