CrowdFlower Inc

Type: Company

Name: CrowdFlower Inc

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

Parse adds hosting product for its apps platform, says won’t ‘go away’ despite Facebook acquisition

Parse , the mobile backend as a service company recently acquired by Facebook , has unveiled a new product it calls Parse Hosting . With this, developers can have a spot to host their mobile apps without needing a contract with a company like Amazon Web ... [Published The Next Web - May 07 2013]

Entities: Mobile Apps, Acquisition, Facebook Inc, App Development

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Lionbridge Technologies Inc

Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The State of Online Staffing Model Evolution

Since late summer of 2012, we have been researching the phenomenon of what we call “online staffing” platform businesses. As of this time, we have identified about 65 different individual businesses operating in this “online staffing” space (which EXCLUDES ... [Published Staffing Industry Analysts - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Evolution, CrowdFlower Inc, Lionbridge Technologies Inc, Elance Inc, oDesk Corp

First reported Mar 26 2013 - Updated Mar 27 2013 - 1 reports

oDesk Corp

Rev.com Launches Freelance Transcription and Translation Market

Rev.com publicly launches today as a service where people can enlist freelancers to quickly transcribe and translate their content. Interestingly, the company was founded by employees No. 3 and 4 at oDesk, the remote work marketplace, and was funded ... [Published All Things Digital - Mar 26 2013]

Entities: oDesk Corp, Market, GlobeSpan Inc, CrowdFlower Inc, Menlo Ventures

First reported Mar 07 2013 - Updated Mar 07 2013 - 1 reports

Bing Search Engine

Blind Study Finds YP Local Results Beat Google, Bing, Yahoo

A “blind” study commissioned by directory publisher and local ad network YP, performed by Crowdflower, found that YP’s local search results were better overall than those of search engines. This was measured as a function of user satisfaction rating. ... [Published Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & ... - Mar 07 2013]

Entities: Bing Search Engine, Yahoo! Inc, Google Inc, Search Engines, CrowdFlower Inc

First reported Feb 26 2013 - Updated Feb 26 2013 - 1 reports

Patrick Meier: Using CrowdFlower to Microtask Disaster Response — and Robert Steele on CrowdFlower to Manage Micro-gifting Local to Global Range of Needs & Fulfillment Table to Household Level

Using CrowdFlower to Microtask Disaster Response Cross-posted from CrowdFlower blog A devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. Two weeks later, on January 27th, a CrowdFlower was used to translate text messages from Haitian Creole ... [Published Public Intelligence Blog - Feb 26 2013]

Entities: CrowdFlower Inc, Patrick Meier, Robert Steele

First reported Feb 21 2013 - Updated Feb 21 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

SOS In 140 Characters Or Less

In the wake of a natural disaster, it can be hard for relief workers to determine where help is needed most. But Ben Schiller looks at the improvements offered by “micro task” services: Following last December’s Typhoon Pablo , in the Philippines, ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Feb 21 2013]

Entities: CrowdFlower Inc, United Nations Office for the Coordination of H..., Patrick Meier, Flooding, Philippines

First reported Feb 01 2013 - Updated Feb 01 2013 - 1 reports

CrowdFlower Adds Skill Tests To Find The Right Crowdsourced Labor

CrowdFlower , a startup that helps businesses manage crowdsourced labor for tasks like image moderation , is looking to expand the types of jobs it can tackle with the launch of new Skill Tests — which, as you probably guessed, are online tests used ... [Published TechCrunch - Feb 01 2013]

Entities: CrowdFlower Inc, Crowdsourcing, Labor

First reported Jan 24 2013 - Updated Jan 24 2013 - 2 reports

VC Firm Bessemer Doubles Down On Investment Leadership, Adds Six New Partners

Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners is adding a number of new leaders to its partnership. In addition to the promotions of Kent Bennett, Brian Feinstein, Ethan Kurzweil and Trevor Oelschig to partner, the firm is bringing BVP alum Alex ... [Published TechCrunch - Jan 24 2013]

Entities: Venture Capital, CrowdFlower Inc, Shopify Inc, IPOs

First reported Jan 06 2013 - Updated Jan 06 2013 - 1 reports

Top 10 Technology Tends for 2013

Big data and information visualization ubiquity Video is the platform (example: individual YouTube channels with over 100,000 people making more than $10,000/year from ‘home video’ properties like My Drunk Kitchen, the ShayTards, and Right This ... [Published Broader Perspective - Jan 06 2013]

Entities: e-health, Biometrics, TopCoder Inc, CrowdFlower Inc, oDesk Corp

First reported Dec 20 2012 - Updated Dec 20 2012 - 1 reports

Apple Maps: 3 Times More Likely to Get You Lost Than Google

For iPhone users, Google Maps is back. The revamped app, launched last week , is being downloaded in the tens of millions . As a result, iOS6 activations are on the rise. And Apple finally has the breathing room it needs to overhaul its ... [Published Mashable! - Dec 20 2012]

Entities: iOS 6 Maps, Google Inc, Google Maps, CrowdFlower Inc

First reported Dec 18 2012 - Updated Dec 18 2012 - 2 reports

Parse Adds Crowdflower’s Photo Moderation To Its Mobile Backend Services

The aim of Y Combinator-backed startup Parse is to provide backend services tackling the “monotonous, tedious,” parts of mobile app development, so that developers can focus on what truly sets their products apart, rather than the “really common functionality.” ... [Published TechCrunch - Dec 18 2012]

Entities: CrowdFlower Inc, Lukas Biewald, TechCrunch50 Conference

First reported Dec 08 2012 - Updated Dec 08 2012 - 1 reports

Patrick Meier: UN, Social Media, HUMINT, and Geospatial Decision-Support –a REAL Revolution in Intelligence Affairs

Patrick Meier How the UN Used Social Media in Response to Typhoon Pablo Our mission as digital humanitarians was to deliver a detailed dataset of pictures and videos (posted on Twitter) which depicted the damage and flooding following the ... [Published Public Intelligence Blog - Dec 08 2012]

Entities: Patrick Meier, HUMINT, Geospatial

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Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spe... [Published ZDNet - May 13 2013]
Parse adds hosting product for its apps platfor... [Published The Next Web - May 07 2013]
Parse adds hosting product for its apps platfor... [Published The Next Web - May 07 2013]
Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The State of Online Staf... [Published Staffing Industry Analysts - Apr 25 2013]
Rev.com Launches Freelance Transcription and Tr... [Published All Things Digital - Mar 26 2013]
7 startups step out of ‘entrepreneur clubhouse’... [Published Venturebeat - Mar 20 2013]
Blind Study Finds YP Local Results Beat Google,... [Published Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & ... - Mar 07 2013]
New Whitepaper Finds YP.com Surpasses Google Ma... [Published EON Communications - Mar 07 2013]
New Whitepaper Finds YP.com Surpasses Google Ma... [Published Business Wire Technology News - Mar 07 2013]
CloudFactory Launches CloudFactory 2.0 Platform... [Published TechCrunch - Mar 04 2013]
Former Lolapps Engineers Launch Rollbar, An Err... [Published TechCrunch - Feb 26 2013]
Patrick Meier: Using CrowdFlower to Microtask D... [Published Public Intelligence Blog - Feb 26 2013]
SOS In 140 Characters Or Less [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Feb 21 2013]
CrowdFlower Adds Skill Tests To Find The Right ... [Published TechCrunch - Feb 01 2013]
Bessemer Venture Partners Bolsters Team [Published PE Hub News - Jan 24 2013]
VC Firm Bessemer Doubles Down On Investment Lea... [Published TechCrunch - Jan 24 2013]
VC Firm Bessemer Doubles Down On Investment Lea... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Jan 24 2013]
Top 10 Technology Tends for 2013 [Published Broader Perspective - Jan 06 2013]
Apple Maps: 3 Times More Likely to Get You Lost... [Published Mashable! - Dec 20 2012]
With 50k apps, Parse launches a MailChimp Mandr... [Published The Next Web - Dec 19 2012]
Parse and CrowdFlower Partner to Bring Crowdsou... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Dec 18 2012]
Parse Adds Crowdflower’s Photo Moderation To It... [Published TechCrunch - Dec 18 2012]
Parse Adds Crowdflower’s Photo Moderation To It... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Dec 18 2012]
Local hero: Fellows Friday with Faisal Chohan [Published TED Blog - Dec 14 2012]
How startup Alegion aims to humanize crowdsourc... [Published GigaOM Network - Dec 12 2012]
How startup Alegion aims to humanize crowdsourc... [Published GigaOM Network - Dec 12 2012]
How startup Alegion aims to humanize crowdsourcing [Published GigaOM - Dec 12 2012]
Patrick Meier: UN, Social Media, HUMINT, and Ge... [Published Public Intelligence Blog - Dec 08 2012]
Bunchball shows off the ‘rock stars’ of gamific... [Published Venturebeat - Dec 05 2012]
New GigaOM Pro Sector RoadMap Report Examines E... [Published PRWeb - Nov 06 2012]

Blogs

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Parse adds hosting product for its apps platfor... [Published The Next Web - May 07 2013] Parse , the mobile backend as a service company recently acquired by Facebook , has unveiled a new product it calls Parse Hosting . With this, developers can have a spot to host their mobile apps without needing a contract with a company like Amazon Web ...
Parse adds hosting product for its apps platfor... [Published The Next Web - May 07 2013] Parse , the mobile backend as a service company recently acquired by Facebook , has unveiled a new product it calls Parse Hosting . With this, developers can have a spot to host their mobile apps without needing a contract with a company like Amazon ...
Rev.com Launches Freelance Transcription and Tr... [Published All Things Digital - Mar 26 2013] Rev.com publicly launches today as a service where people can enlist freelancers to quickly transcribe and translate their content. Interestingly, the company was founded by employees No. 3 and 4 at oDesk, the remote work marketplace, and was funded ...
7 startups step out of ‘entrepreneur clubhouse’... [Published Venturebeat - Mar 20 2013] ‘Clubhouse for entrepreneurs’ Founders Den held its Spring demo event today where seven startups presented their products to a room filled with the elite investors. Founders Den is a ‘selectively curated startup community’ that focuses on experienced ...
Blind Study Finds YP Local Results Beat Google,... [Published Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & ... - Mar 07 2013] A “blind” study commissioned by directory publisher and local ad network YP, performed by Crowdflower, found that YP’s local search results were better overall than those of search engines. This was measured as a function of user satisfaction rating. ...

Press Releases

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New Whitepaper Finds YP.com Surpasses Google Ma... [Published EON Communications - Mar 07 2013]
New Whitepaper Finds YP.com Surpasses Google Ma... [Published Business Wire Technology News - Mar 07 2013]
Parse and CrowdFlower Partner to Bring Crowdsou... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Dec 18 2012]