microtasks

Today nearly 1,000 people complete "microtasks" in the company's cloud, doing transcriptions and data entry for such Silicon Valley companies as LinkedIn and Intuit, in some cases using mobile phones or smartphones.

Leila Janah's top five iPad apps Katherine Ryder 2011

Richard Borge Some individual microtasks can take just a few seconds and pay a few cents per task.

Big Firms Try Crowdsourcing Rachel Emma Silverman 2012

Crowdsourcing firm Samasource, a San Francisco nonprofit, specializes in assigning microtasks, such as verifying business addresses, to workers in the developing world.

Big Firms Try Crowdsourcing Rachel Emma Silverman 2012

It is an article of absolute faith amonsgt the administrative-mindset-brigade that the "variable human factor" can be managed out of any organisation by specifying in infinitesimal detail the series of microtasks that the people in the organisation have to do.

The Policeman's Blog 2006

That's why it can assume that one of its microtasks can be completed within two seconds.

NYT > Home Page By RANDALL STROSS 2010

That's why it can assume that one of its microtasks can be completed within two seconds.

NYT > Home Page By RANDALL STROSS 2010

While Crowdsourcing can also applied to accomplishing nearly any task, such as logo design, web development, microtasks such as address lookups or web page editorializing and more, our focus here is specifically on innovation - whether the front end of idea generation, vetting or ultimately in execution.

CMSWire.com - All News 2010

"It's broken down into microtasks that allows a lot of volume in a short amount of time."

ScribeMedia.org 2010

That's why it can assume that one of its microtasks can be completed within two seconds.

NYT > Home Page By RANDALL STROSS 2010

Slide 36: People working and living with digital micromedia are swimming, rather than navigating, in a sea of microcontent and streams of microtasks.

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