Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a new term for any task that is completed by many people working independently on tiny parts of it. Although the word wasn't used until June 2006, crowdsourcing has been around for a long time. In 1714, the British Government offered a public prize for a solution to the longitude problem. The OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY was compiled in the early 1800s from volunteer contributions written on slips of paper.

There are a growing number of websites which ask users to help solve a problem or process huge amounts of information - sometimes for small amounts of money, or for the satisfaction of having helped. A recent well-publicised Crowdsourcing project involved thousands of people using Google Earth to try to find missing aviator, Steve Fosset.

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Here are some crowdsourcing sites (or sites that are a bit like that but defy categorisation!).

Please have a look at five or more of these sites, and write about each one in the DISCUSSION area of this Wiki page:
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1. Describe what YOU think each site is about. 2. What do you think is GOOD about each site, and what could be BETTER? 3. What concerns do you have about each type of site?

http://www.43things.com/ http://www.30boxes.com/welcome.php http://www.nuffnang.com.my/ http://www.frappr.com/ http://www.google.com/trends http://nuvvo.com/ http://www.ning.com/ http://www.foodistcolony.com/ http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ http://digg.com/