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Do crowdsourced design contests work? You be the judge – and win!
October 4, 2010… back
Because we focused on 99Designs in this earlier post, it was a natural choice to run the competition. Having said this, based on our initial research, Crowdspring, designoutpost, designcrowd, MycroBurst, designcontest, and redesignme all seem to offer a great service as well.
This decision out of the way, the first step is to create the challenge, decide on a prize and provide a design brief.
As we had a clear vision of what we wanted, we were able to provide …
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99design, contest, crowdsourced design, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, CrowdSpring, design competition, designcontest, designcrowd, designoutpost, distributed work, MycroBurst, reDesignMe, t shirts | 7 CommentsBetter shred than read: DARPA uses competitive crowdsourcing to revive destroyed documents
January 12, 2012… would provide a variety of possible solutions, DARPA decided to establish a crowdsourced competition.
With a first prize of $50,000 (much cheaper than hiring programmers) the “ Shredder Challenge ” had five challenges of increasing difficulty. In a clever bit of gamification, each document consisted of a puzzle that could only be solved when the document had been stitched back together. Entrants won the prize by being the first to submit all the correct puzzle answers. …
2011: the year the future became history?
December 24, 2011 Share Looking back, this year seems set to enter the history books as a year of upheaval: from natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami, to the economic turmoil in the EU and US, to the more positive chaos in the Middle East.
Amidst the booming tech industry, we at Microtask have often felt insulated from this turbulence. But mostly, we have felt like we were right …
Microtask Selected to Rule the Globe
November 21, 2011… economic problems. An unprecedented number of entrepreneurs are attempting to jump ahead of the competition and aspire to make a difference. Breakthroughs obsolete each other faster than ever before. Microtask has performed exceptionally in its field and strongly deserves to be singled out as one of the Red Herring Global Finalists. At this stage, we are left with the daunting task to select the best qualified companies for the 2011 Top 100 Global Award.”
2011, crowd, crowdsourcing, Finalist, microwork, RedHerring | Leave a commentKaggle: crowdsourcing genius or statistical anomaly?
November 14, 2011… data analytics crowdsourcing start-up Kaggle.
Kaggle is a classic “brain-based” crowd competition site. Organizations post statistical problems and Kaggle’s crowd of “the world’s best data analysts” compete to solve them. As well as prize money, Kaggle boasts various gamified incentives such as a real-time leader board and “kudos point” rankings. Only founded in 2010, the company has had an impressive first year. Completed competitions include: working with NASA on …
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