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CrowdFlower Co-Founder Lukas Biewald Becomes CEO (Again)
3 / 23 / 2012
"CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses manage crowdsourced labor, has named a new CEO — co-founder Lukas Biewald. ..." View Article Here >>
What CrowdFlower's Sentiment Analysts Think of Your SXSW Tweets
3 / 14 / 2012
"As the South by Southwest Interactive conference winds down, the tech-loving attendees are still talking about it on Twitter. ..." View Article Here >>
Wisdom of the Crowd
3 / 1 / 2012
"Change is in the air. For an industry that's already evolved significantly from the 'Kelly Girl' days, the future promises more change to come. So what's in store? ..." View Article Here >>
Training the Cloud With the Crowd: Training Google Prediction API Using CrowdFlower's Workforce
2 / 29 / 2012
"Can a machine be taught to determine the sentiment of a Twitter message about weather? ..." View Article Here >>
Enterprise Crowdsourcing Market Achieves Over 75% Revenue Growth Finds Research Firm massolution
2 / 28 / 2012
"massolution(TM), a research firm specializing in crowdsourcing solutions, today released the first comprehensive report on the enterprise crowdsourcing industry. ..." View Article Here >>
Huge Growth Earns CrowdFlower "Hot Company" Recognition
2 / 27 / 2012
"Rocketing 300 percent growth in 2011 has earned CrowdFlower, the leader in enterprise crowdsourcing, “hot company” accolades as one the region’s fastest-growing, privately-held technology businesses. ..." View Article Here >>
Lead411 launches "Hottest Companies in San Francisco" awards
2 / 21 / 2012
"In order to recognize the fastest growing technology companies in San Francisco and the East Bay, Lead411 is proud to announce ..." View Article Here >>
Crowdsourcing: Fueling Jobs and Innovation
2 / 9 / 2012
"Websites like Kickstarter.com have become renowned for helping innovators and artists fund their creative endeavors. ..." View Article Here >>
Why SF's Current Tech Boom is "Here to Stay"
2 / 9 / 2012
"A few years ago, one of the general partners at Trinity Ventures, Dan Scholnick, started floating the idea to his colleagues that the VC firm should expand from its headquarters on Sand Hill Road by establishing a beachhead in San Francisco. ..." View Article Here >>
CrowdFlower Reports Revenue of 300% Year Over Year
2 / 7 / 2012
"CrowdFlower, the leader in enterprise-level crowdsourced microtasks, is now reporting revenue of 300% year over year and 300 million completed tasks for enterprise clients including Microsoft, and Twitter. ..." View Article Here >>
'Angel' Investors Exist Outside Tech Elite, Too
2 / 2 / 2012
"Many "angel" investors, who put their own money into small start-ups at a very early stage, previously worked at technology icons that are known for minting millionaires, like Google Inc. and PayPal. ..." View Article Here >>
FACTBOX—Innovative private-sector aid projects
1 / 26 / 2012
"From telecoms to finance, online support to aid on the ground, companies are coming up with new ways to help people in humanitarian crises. ..." View Article Here >>
Crowdsourcing — A Solution to your "Bad Data" Problems
1 / 25 / 2012
"Data problems — whether they be inaccurate data, incomplete data, data categorization issues, duplicate data, data in need of enrichment — are age-old. ..."
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Fixing a $3 Trillion Dirty Data Problem with "Crowd Computing"
1 / 22 / 2012
"Yes. 'Crowd Computing', not 'Cloud Computing'. That wasn't a typo. ..."
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Big Firms Try Crowdsourcing
1 / 17 / 2012
"When AOL Inc. set out to determine whether it was getting the best use of its video library last year, the task required an inventory to measure which of the thousands of Web pages it publishes daily contained videos. ..." View Article Here >>
Al Jazeera, Ushahidi Join in Project to Connect Somalia Diaspora via SMS
1 / 6 / 2012
"In the Horn of Africa, Somalia makes headlines, but often only because of drought, famine, crisis and insecurity. Al Jazeera launched Somalia Speaks to help amplify stories from people and their everyday lives in the region -- all via SMS. ..."
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SwagBucks Android app pays rewards for watching videos
1 / 5 / 2012
"Late last year I sung the praises of cash-rebate sites, which pay you back for making online purchases you were going to make anyway. ..."
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Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA — Is It Enough, Or Too Little Too Late?
12 / 26 / 2011
"If you are not familiar, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced ..." View Article Here >>
CrowdFlower Posts Video Highlights of CrowdConf 2011 Online
12 / 1 / 2011
"CrowdFlower.com, the largest provider of crowdsourcing solutions for enterprise was one of several hosts for CrowdConf 2011. They have announced that videos highlighting the conference are now available online. ..."
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CrowdFlower’s founder, Lukas Biewald’s take on SOPA
11 / 17 / 2011
"Congress is debating this week the Stop Internet Piracy Act with the goal of putting up a major roadblock that will punish copyright villains and their alibis. But entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and venture capitalists say the bill's unintended consequences will be to stifle innovation..."
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Crowd Leader: David Alan Grier, Report From CrowdConf 2011
11 / 15 / 2011
"Now that CrowdConf 2011 has come to a close it’s time to look at what the conference focused on and what questions where prompted. The spotlight was on industry and included an announcement about new industry associations; there were also lots of great exhibits and activities."
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One to Watch: Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures
11 / 15 / 2011
"Among the K9 companies that appear to be tracking quite nicely is CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing service that raised a $1.2 million seed round in March 2009. The company has since raised another $12 million"
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Hires and promotions, Nov. 13
11 / 13 / 2011
"CrowdFlower, an enterprise crowdsourcing company in San Francisco, has hired Woodson Hobbs as CEO and Richard Arnold as chief financial officer and vice president of strategy and corporate development. Hobbs previously held roles as the CEO of Phoenix Technologies, the CEO of Intellisync and the chief information officer of Charles Schwab."
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Crowdsourcing Scientific Progress: How Crowdflower's Hordes Help Harvard Researchers Study TB
10 / 26 / 2011
"Crowdflower executive chairman Lukas Biewald says his company's bread and butter is the repetitive digital tasks that it contracts out to workers over the Internet for Fortune 500 tech customers like Yahoo and Microsoft." View Article Here >>
Crowdsourcing Science Promises Hope For Curing Deadly Disease
10 / 21 / 2011
"When cataloging images of tuberculosis cells became too daunting for a research team at Harvard, they turned to crowdsourcing, and discovered that the masses have the ability to dramatically change the course of scientific research."
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Clock in and have a beer. It's a growing trend, but Big Brother's watching
09 / 25 / 2011
"When you're working at a startup, you're working 24-7 and it takes over your life," he said. "It's not like it's a wild fraternity party or something like that - we're all adults."
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CrowdEngine Technology Now Takes Crowdsourcing to Where the Workers Are
09 / 22 / 2011
CrowdFlower announced a new platform which will enable Fortune 500 companies to use crowdsourcing to address their data management needs.
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CrowdFlower offers enterprise crowdsourcing service
09 / 20 / 2011
Crowdsourcing is not new, but startup CrowdFlower is taking the concept to large businesses with a systematic cloud-supported service designed to be faster...
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CrowdFlower Offers Enterprise Crowdsourcing Service
09 / 21 / 2011
Crowdsourcing is not new, but startup CrowdFlower is taking the concept to large businesses with a systematic cloud-supported service designed to be faster and cheaper than hiring people to do massive e-commerce evaluations, fact-checks and related work.
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CrowdFlower offers enterprise crowdsourcing service
09 / 20 / 2011
Crowdsourcing is not new, but startup CrowdFlower is taking the concept to large businesses with a systematic cloud-supported service designed to be faster and cheaper than hiring people to do massive e-commerce evaluations, fact-checks and related work.
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CrowdFlower Announces Industry First Enterprise Crowdsourcing Platform
09 / 20 / 2011
CrowdFlower, the leader in enterprise crowdsourcing, today announced general availability of the industry's first enterprise crowdsourcing platform to address the data management needs of Fortune 500 companies. View Article Here >>
[Giveaway] Tickets, Tickets, Everywhere!
08 / 14 / 2011
Thanks to the kind folks at CrowdFlower the Daily Crowdsource is going to be giving away 6 tickets to CrowdConf2011. Rather than handing them all out in one week, we have decided to run five or six “mini-giveaways” leading up to the conference.
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CrowdFlower Broadens Executive Team
08 / 04 / 2011
The Company said Woodson (Woody) Hobbs accepted the position of chief executive officer, with Richard Arnold joining him as chief financial officer and vice president of strategy and corporate development.
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San Francisco-Based CrowdFlower
Names New CEO and CFO
08 / 02 / 2011
San Francisco -- CrowdFlower, a San Francisco-based developer of a crowdsourcing technology platform, on Tuesday named Woody Hobbs as CEO and Richard Arnold as its CFO and vice president of strategy and corporate development.
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Upcoming Events
Crowdsourcing Boot Camp Series: Crowdsourcing 101
03 / 22 / 2012
This webinar is intended for anyone interested in learning more about crowdsourcing and how this new way to handle large-scale data projects can be applied to their business.
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SXSW 2012
03 / 12 / 2012
CrowdFlower Founder, Lukas Biewald will be speaking at the 19th annual SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas.
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Wolfram Data Summit 2011
09 / 08 - 09 / 2011
In 2010, Wolfram brought together the leaders of the worldwide data community for the first annual Wolfram Data Summit, an unprecedented, multidisciplinary gathering in Washington.
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PopTech
10 / 18 - 22 / 2011
PopTech is a unique innovation network — a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines, who come together to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world’s most significant challenges.
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CrowdConf 2011
11 / 01 - 02 / 2011
CrowdConf is the first and leading conference on crowdsourcing and the future of distributed work. CrowdConf brings together an international audience of scholars, executives, policy makers, artists, and technologists for a day of learning, conversation, and networking.
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