Infosys 338 - Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing

Utest

This website is a place where businesses go to develop and increase the quality and efficiency of their mobile app through 'in-the-wild' software testing. App quality increase, time to market decreases and testing costs reduce. Some well-known such as Netflix, USA Today, Google, Microsoft and Amazon and Bills Guard use the utest software. The site uses a form of crowdfunding which is where individuals and businesses can donate money to the company. Utest, soon to be called Applause, has received over $80 million in funding so far.

Ponoko

This website is a software platform that can create downloadable products. You can make, share, sell and buy the product designs. It gives individuals the chance to have unique designs that can express themselves. This site uses co-creation as a form of crowdsourcing, which is where the users upload their own designs and can get it created.

Flickr

Flickr is a photo management and sharing application. It is a form of collaboration in that you can allow your peers or others permission to edit and organise your photos. It has the option of creating a blog that can be kept private or public, which allows the users to choose which option suits them. Anyone who the user is connected to or allows to view their blog, can comment, add notes and tags.

Chaordix

This website is a crowdsourcing platform. It can range from a small group of individuals, to millions of community members around the world. It can create diverse functional groups to a common collaborative space. It can allow for brand and product innovation through customer's ideas and feedback which is useful in that businesses can get the information directly from their customers, who are essentially the users. It can also give organisations a chance to connect and collaborate with their stakeholders.

Smartling

This website is a powerful software solution for managing translation and localization projects. It is a place where businesses can make their all their digital content in their global websites, mobile apps and business documents into multilingual. This is highly beneficial as it in turn increases a businesses revenue, downloads and willingness to buy the businesses products.

Amazon Mechanical Turk

This website is a popular crowdsourcing platform used by businesses. It gives businesses and developers access on demand and gives a scalable workforce. It is a community where it workers can choose from numerous tasks that suits them, and work on convenience - choose hours, work from home, get paid.