Lay’s Increases Sales by Asking Customers to “Do Us a Flavor”
Learn how Lay’s potato chips increased sales by using crowdsourcing to ask their fans to do them a “flavor”.
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Spoiled Crowds: Is Rotten Tomatoes Good for the Movie Industry?
Is it better to trust the wisdom of crowds in deciding what to watch?
Patreon: Modernizing and crowdsourcing patronage of the arts
Patreon allows creators of all stripes to crowdsource funding on a subscription basis.
Duolingo: Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Translate Language
Duolingo operates in a smart “twofer” model – offering free language courseware while monetizing the crowd-sourced content translated by its users.
Reddit – Democratizing Online Content
How the 4th most visited website in the United States is managing its self-regulating crowdsourced platform
Is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk breaking down?
Workers are disgruntled in Amazon’s MTurk marketplace, but can they successfully demand more rights?
Zooniverse: Anyone Can be a Researcher
Zooniverse if a platform that allows anyone to become a researcher by posting research projects for volunteers to partake in as well as allowing volunteers to post their own projects to gain help on.
Quantopian – Crowdsourcing the Alpha!
Quantopian provides tools and data for quant developers to come up with investment algorithms. After, freelancers create and share the algorithms, Quantopian managers evaluate them to pick the investable ones.
Quantopian: Leveraging the Crowd to Generate Alpha
Quantopian enables anyone to build their own trading algorithm and win prizes for performance. In addition to providing a platform for creating and testing trading algorithms, Quantopian puts capital allocation in their own fund behind successful user created algorithms, sharing net profits with the algorithm author.
Google Voice Search
Google developers crowdsourced linguistic data to give Voice Search more mojo.