I'd like to rank a collection of landscape images by making a game whereby site visitors can rate them, in order to find out which images people find the most appealing. What would be a good method of doing that? Hot-or-Not style? I.e. show a single image, ask the user to rank it from 1-10. As I see it, this allows me to average the ...
I plan to develop website for exchange ideas for website, application, startups… Main purpose of this website is exchange ideas for new project between programmers. Please tell me if exist site like that, and what you think about this idea? ...
I would like to hear about interesting projects which made use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. ...
I have developed a web application using internationalization best practices such as putting all my displayable strings in property files, etc, etc. I would like to have the strings in the property files translated into 5 different languages. Does anyone have any experience using Mechanical Turk or another crowd sourcing service for la...
From wikipedia: Prediction markets are speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. Assets are created whose final cash value is tied to a particular event (e.g., will the next US president be a Republican) or parameter (e.g., total sales next quarter). The current market prices can then be interpreted as predic...
I have a site where users are entering data of some products they buy. How do I ensure correctness of data entered via crowdsourcing (enabling users to vote/edit products) minimizing amount of work that needs to be done by administrator? I'm looking for some how-tos, best practices, etc. ...
Hi all, I've recently gotten involved with a web-based crowd sourcing project. I have two main issues, both with several subquestions. Any insight into any of these questions would be greatly appreciated. 1) Do you guys recommend going through a closed beta testing period? Or encourage as many people as you can to use the site? ...
Hello, I want to crawl a website anonymously without having to rely on an anonymous proxy server. So I was thinking of letting users of my website help me by inserting an invisible IFrame in my template - the IFrame src would be set to a webpage URL I needed, and then uploaded to my server with AJAX. (I can't use AJAX for the downloadi...
I've been inspired by another question: Best Practice for Using Java System Properties I'm currently looking for a complete list of Java system properties and possible values. I'm working on a simple class to simplify use of them (If you're interested, get the source and background info (my blog)). With this class, I try to provide the ...
I'm looking for a tool to help with crowdsourcing the translations for a web site. Some generous translators have volunteered to help so I want to provide them with a tool to use that will make their job as easy as possible. Ideally the tool/app will be free or have only a small charge. Ideally I'd like a translation system that makes ...
I have three ordered ranks of web pages for a set of queries and would like to decide which rank performs better across all queries. Imagine that for 50 queries I have collected the top 10 results from Google, Bing and Yahoo. I would like to design a crowdsourcing experiment to decide which rank is better. Thanks in advance for any comm...