CloudCrowd
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CloudCrowd was founded by Alex Edelstein
and Jordan Ritter
and operates in the crowdsourcing
space. CloudCrowd has created a labor operating system; an on-demand online workforce of 25,000. Crowdsourcing is often used to complete large-scale tasks where human judgment is required, such as categorizing websites, verifying data, or creating content.
CloudCrowd takes large projects and breaks them into pieces that can be managed by their online workforce. The system allows many different kinds of projects to be completed by workers with a wide range of skills. CloudCrowd was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Most Brilliant Companies" list in June, 2010. .
and CloudMark, an anti-spam service that claims to protect more than 1 billion email inboxes .
Alex Edelstein
held executive roles at CloudMark and Inktomi. He product-managed the early versions of Netscape Navigator
. Additionally, he was on the design team for Microsoft Exchange and what became Microsoft Outlook
. He serves on the board of Kiva.org, a non-profit that facilities micro-lending in developing countries.
Alex Edelstein
Alex Edelstein is a high-tech business executive and reality television participant.-Career:Alex Edelstein is the Chief Executive Officer of Servio a company in the crowdsourcing space that he co-founded with Jordan Ritter in 2009...
and Jordan Ritter
Jordan Ritter
-Career:Jordan Ritter is the Chief Technology Officer of CloudCrowd a company in the crowdsourcing space that he co-founded with Alex Edelstein in 2009. He was the co-founder of the original Napster and developed the original technology with Shawn Fanning. He was the Chief Server Architecture and...
and operates in the crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
space. CloudCrowd has created a labor operating system; an on-demand online workforce of 25,000. Crowdsourcing is often used to complete large-scale tasks where human judgment is required, such as categorizing websites, verifying data, or creating content.
CloudCrowd
CloudCrowd provides large-scale crowdsourcing services and has developed a credibility system that automatically peer-reviews each task for accuracy.CloudCrowd takes large projects and breaks them into pieces that can be managed by their online workforce. The system allows many different kinds of projects to be completed by workers with a wide range of skills. CloudCrowd was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Most Brilliant Companies" list in June, 2010. .
Servio
Servio is an on-demand website that provides editing, translation, and content-creation services. Servio utilizes the CloudCrowd labor platform and workforce.People
Jordan Ritter Co-Founder of NapsterNapster
Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...
and CloudMark, an anti-spam service that claims to protect more than 1 billion email inboxes .
Alex Edelstein
Alex Edelstein
Alex Edelstein is a high-tech business executive and reality television participant.-Career:Alex Edelstein is the Chief Executive Officer of Servio a company in the crowdsourcing space that he co-founded with Jordan Ritter in 2009...
held executive roles at CloudMark and Inktomi. He product-managed the early versions of Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser that was popular in the 1990s. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared...
. Additionally, he was on the design team for Microsoft Exchange and what became Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
. He serves on the board of Kiva.org, a non-profit that facilities micro-lending in developing countries.