Archive for the ‘business models’ Category

CrowdSourcing… An Internet Labor Model

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in business models |

ReadWriteWeb has a fantastic overview of CrowdSourcing. In my view, these CrowdSource sites try to benefit from the best of Open Source, by merely stuffing some of the concepts into a walled garden. Open Source is so ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in business models |

I alluded to Amazon's Mechanical Turk yesterday, which some may not be aware of. Jeff Atwood has nice article that discusses the usefulness of the service and some of the pitfalls as he sees it. It is worth ...