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CloudCrowd Industry crowdsourcing Founder(s) Alex Edelstein and Jordan Ritter Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA Website http://www.cloudcrowd.com/ CloudCrowd was founded by Alex Edelstein and Jordan Ritter[1] and operates in the crowdsourcing space. CloudCrowd has created a labor operating system; an on-demand online workforce of 25,000. Crowdsourcing is often used to complete large-scale tasks where human judgment is required, such as categorizing websites, verifying data, or creating content.
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Products
CloudCrowd
CloudCrowd provides large-scale crowdsourcing services and has developed a credibility system that automatically peer-reviews each task for accuracy. [2]
CloudCrowd takes large projects and breaks them into pieces that can be managed by their online workforce. The system allows many different kinds of projects to be completed by workers with a wide range of skills. CloudCrowd was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Most Brilliant Companies" list in June, 2010. [3].
Servio
Servio is an on-demand website that provides editing, translation, and content-creation services. Servio utilizes the CloudCrowd labor platform and workforce.
People
Jordan Ritter Co-Founder of Napster [4] and CloudMark, an anti-spam service that claims to protect more than 1 billion email inboxes [5].
Alex Edelstein held executive roles at CloudMark and Inktomi. He product-managed the early versions of Netscape Navigator. Additionally, he was on the design team for Microsoft Exchange and what became Microsoft Outlook. He serves on the board of Kiva.org, a non-profit that facilities micro-lending in developing countries. [6]
Customers
University of Southern California (USC), RentCycle and Lombardi Sports. [7]
References
- ^ USAToday, March 31, 2010
- ^ TechCrunch, July 13, 2010
- ^ Entrepreneur Magazine June 2010
- ^ CNET, November 15, 2000
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_20100111/ai_n46426750/
- ^ http://www.kiva.org/about/team/advisors
- ^ http://www.cloudcrowd.com
External links
Categories:- Crowdsourcing
- Outsourcing companies
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
