Industry Online Labor | Headquarters San Francisco | |
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Founders Jordan Ritter, Alex Edelstein | ||
An introduction to cloudcrowd
CloudCrowd is an online work platform that provides writing, editing, and other work. It was founded by Alex Edelstein and Jordan Ritter and operates in the crowdsourcing space, meaning that writing jobs get broken down into smaller pieces and distributed to multiple workers. CloudCrowd has created a labor operating system; an on-demand online workforce of 150,000. Crowdsourcing is often used to complete large-scale tasks where human judgment is required, such as categorizing websites, verifying data, or creating content.
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Research
CloudCrowd research projects involve searching the internet to locate information.
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. CloudCrowd workers participated in the first crowdsourced journalistic column.
Sources of Work
CloudCrowd's affiliated company, 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 Napster 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.