Comments on: 7 degrees of failure: Is the power of the crowd overrated? http://blog.microtask.com/2012/05/7-degrees-of-failure-is-the-power-of-the-crowd-overrated/ Future of distributed work and crowdsourcing Sat, 25 May 2013 13:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tommaso De Benetti http://blog.microtask.com/2012/05/7-degrees-of-failure-is-the-power-of-the-crowd-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-687 Tommaso De Benetti Wed, 30 May 2012 18:49:00 +0000 http://blog.microtask.com/2012/05/7-degrees-of-failure-is-the-power-of-the-crowd-overrated/#comment-687  Good point Enrique. However this crowd had a lot of gadgets to assist the search...  Good point Enrique. However this crowd had a lot of gadgets to assist the search…

]]> By: Enrique Estellés http://blog.microtask.com/2012/05/7-degrees-of-failure-is-the-power-of-the-crowd-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-686 Enrique Estellés Wed, 30 May 2012 13:42:00 +0000 http://blog.microtask.com/2012/05/7-degrees-of-failure-is-the-power-of-the-crowd-overrated/#comment-686 I think that each problem proposed using crowdsourcing needs a certain quantity of people to get done. Finding five people all around the world is a difficult task that need a really BIG crowd. So I think there wasn't a problem of overrating the crowd but a problem with the size and dispersion of the crowd. I think that each problem proposed using crowdsourcing needs a certain
quantity of people to get done.

Finding five people all around the
world is a difficult task that need a really BIG crowd. So I think there wasn’t a problem of overrating the crowd but a problem with the size and dispersion of the crowd.

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