Flashcards: Crowdsourcing

Eyewire is a game to map the brain that originated at Sebastian Seung's Lab at MIT.

Distributed Proofreaders (commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP) is a web-based project that supports the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg by allowing many people to work together in proofreading drafts of e-texts for errors.

Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies.

The Knowledge Fund (KF, Georgian: ცოდნის ფონდი) non-profit, charity organization, was founded by Kakha Bendukidze in 2007.

OpenSeaMap is a software project collecting freely usable nautical information and geospatial data to create a worldwide nautical chart.

EteRNA is a browser-based "game with a purpose", developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, that engages users to solve puzzles related to the folding of RNA molecules.

Moovit is a public transit app and mapping service which features trip planning, live arrival and departure times, up-to-date line schedules, local station maps, service alerts, and advisories that may affect one's current trip.

Flitto (Hangul: 플리토) is a global crowd-sourcing translation platform (iOS, Android, web), where you can request translations as you need or become a translator if you can speak more than one language.

(For other uses see Zooniverse (disambiguation)) Zooniverse is a citizen science web portal owned and operated by the Citizen Science Alliance.

LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet.

Waze (/weɪz/), formerly FreeMap Israel) is a GPS-based geographical navigation application program that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Waze Mobile.

Google Map Maker is a mapping and map editing service launched by Google in June 2008.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed to establish that a computer user is human (normally in order to protect websites from bots) and, at the same time, assist in the digitization of books.

Duolingo (/ˌduːoʊˈlɪŋɡoʊ/ DOO-oh-LING-goh or /ˌdjuːoʊˈlɪŋɡoʊ/ DYOO-oh-LING-goh) is a free language-learning platform that includes a language-learning website and app, as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam.

The VroniPlag Wiki is a wiki started 28 March 2011 at Wikia that examines and documents the extent of plagiarism in German doctoral theses.

Late Labs is a San Francisco based “crowdcoding” startup founded by Justin Johnson and Nathan Ross.

Below is a list of projects that rely on crowdsourcing.

PledgeMusic is an online Direct-to-Fan music platform, launched in August 2009, that facilitates musicians reaching out to their fanbase (termed Pledgers) to pre-sell, market, and distribute music projects including recordings, music videos, and concerts.

Pozible is an Australia-based crowdfunding platform and community-building tool for creative projects and ideas.

WBEW is a non-commercial educational (NCE), Class B1 public radio station on 89.

WUHU is a free software package for Microsoft Windows which allows users with Personal Weather Stations to contribute weather data to one of several networks, including: * Weather Underground (weather service) (wunderground.com) * Citizen Weather Observer Program (also known as CWOP) * WeatherBug * YoWindow * Australian Weather Network * UK Weather Net WUHU stands for Weather Underground / HeavyWeather Uploader.

"We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition)" is a collaborative charity song and music video produced by singer-songwriter Lisa Lavie and posted to the YouTube video sharing website to raise money for victims of the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake.

CommonBond is a marketplace lender that lowers the cost of student loans for borrowers and provides financial returns to investors.

Traffline is a website and smartphone application that provides real time traffic information in 5 cities in India, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai and Pune.

Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI) is an online multiplayer game used by the US Navy Office of Naval Research and other U.

Projexity is a Canadian company that offers online audience engagement tools to groups, organizations and municipalities.

Tomnod is a project owned by Colorado-based satellite company DigitalGlobe that uses crowdsourcing to identify objects and places in satellite images.

Tagasauris is a technology startup company that was founded in New York City in December 2010.

Wreckamovie is a collaborative film production platform to allow individuals to set up a film production and find a community to collaborate with, or find others' interesting film productions and become a collaborator in a worknet.

Microtask is a Finnish technology company founded by Ville Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons and Panu Wilska in 2009 to create a technology platform for crowdsourcing and distributed work.

Trusper is a free mobile app for iOS and Android that allows people to quickly share and discover tips of daily life with trusted friends, family, and fans.

Muzzley is an app to control your Internet of Things devices.

JumpStartFund is a Southern California based crowd-powered online incubator and crowd collaboration platform.

InnoCentive is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based crowdsourcing company that accepts by commission research and development problems in engineering, computer science, math, chemistry, life sciences, physical sciences and business.

Memrise is an online learning tool with courses created by its community.

Britain In A Day is a crowdsourced documentary film that consists of a series clips of footage shot by members of the public in Britain on 12 November 2011.

mySociety is an e-democracy project of the UK-based registered charity named UK Citizens Online Democracy.

In 2010, Kaggle was founded as a platform for predictive modelling and analytics competitions on which companies and researchers post their data and statisticians and data miners from all over the world compete to produce the best models.

OpenSignal is a company that specializes in wireless coverage mapping.

Fundrise is an eREIT platform.

Jumpstarter, Inc is a California-based company.

FixMyStreet platform is free and open source software by mySociety which enables anyone to run a FixMyStreet.

Gengo is a web-based headquartered in Tokyo.

Genius Crowds was a crowdsourcing platform founded in 2010 on the principles of collaboration and sharing.

NotchUp, Inc. is a Silicon Valley based start-up that is first to offer an on-demand recruiting service that uses crowdsourcing combined with social media and an advanced web-based technology platform.

Servio is a San Francisco technology company that provides enterprise content services.

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.

99designs is an online graphic design marketplace headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Melbourne, Berlin, Paris, London and Rio de Janeiro.

Creative Market is an online marketplace for community-generated design assets.

The Smithsonian Transcription Center is a crowdsourcing transcription project that aims to assist with the preservation and digitization of handwritten material in the Smithsonian Institution.

Christmas In A Day is a crowdsourced documentary film that consists of a series clips of footage shot by members of the public in Britain on Christmas Day (25 December 2012).

Mass collaboration is a form of collective action that occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project, often modular in its nature.

Of the Subcontract (sometimes titled Of the Subcontract: Or Principles of Poetic Right) is a collection of exactly 100 poems written by a worker subcontracted through Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Sprked is a free platform dedicated to the curation and recommendation of video games.

VentureCrowd is an Australian multi asset class crowdfunding platform, headquartered in Sydney, including equity crowdfunding, property crowdfunding and debt-based crowdfunding.

CrowdOptic is a privately held company founded in 2011 by Jon Fisher, Jeff Broderick, Doug Van Blaricom and Alex Malinovsky.

Groundfloor (styled all caps as GROUNDFLOOR) is an American real estate lending marketplace.

Synap was developed by James Gupta and Omair Vaiyani, two medical students at Leeds Medical School, with an interest in neuroscience and memory.

For the Win is the second young adult science fiction novel by Canadian author Cory Doctorow.

yet2.com is a global technology marketplace founded in 1999.

Wahooly was a crowd funding company that introduced social networkers to startup websites, giving them an investment stake in return for promoting the new business.

iStock is an online, royalty free, international micro stock photography provider.

Maneno was a blogging application powered by PHP, Smarty, and MySQL with content management capabilities.

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace enabling individuals and businesses (known as Requesters) to coordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do.

CloudCrowd is an online work platform that provides writing, editing, and other work.

Transcribe Bentham is a multi-award-winning crowdsourced manuscript transcription project, run by University College London's Bentham Project, in partnership with UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL Library Services, UCL Learning and Media Services, the University of London Computer Centre, and the online community.

AHHHA is a crowdsourcing site where innovators and contributors cooperatively develop new ideas into commercial products.

Article One Partners, L.

CrowdFlower was founded in 2007 by Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt, as "Dolores Labs.

IdeaScale is a cloud-based software company that licenses an innovation management platform employing the principles and practices of crowdsourcing.

Innovation Exchange Inc.