socialmedian: Gambit Teams With CrowdFlower For An Alternative To ‘Offers’: Crowdsourced Labor

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Gambit Teams With CrowdFlower For An Alternative To ‘Offers’: Crowdsourced Labor

Source: TechCrunch

Oct 22, 2009

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Anyone who has played though some of the more popular casual games on social networks like Facebook has likely come across ‘Offers’ — sponsored promotions you can sign up for or surveys you can take to earn virtual currency instead of having to pull out your credit card. Depending on the survey, these can be fairly time consuming, and sometimes it feels like handing over your Email will lead to a lifetime of spam messages. Today Gambit is looking to offer an alternative to these traditional offers: it’s partnering with TC50 finalist CrowdFlower to allow applications to offer bite-sized chunks of cloud-based labor to users.

CrowdFlower launched at this year’s TechCrunch50 with the intention of helping businesses outsource mundane or repetitive tasks that could easily be performed by just about anyone — things like filtering through images for material that is clearly copyrighted. Now companies will be able to sign up for a task on CrowdFlower and choose to outsource these tasks both to CrowdFlower’s established community, and to Gambit’s payment platform, wh

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