Last night I went the Crowdsourcing Work Meetup event in my new hometown - San Francisco. The energy, passion, and excitement in this city is incredible. Chicago never could have staged this event. I feel really lucky to be here. ReTel is at the geographical and ideological epicenter of a brand new technology that is going to change the world. My co-founder, Adam Rodnitzky said it best - "This is turning into a movement." He's right. The wave is building and it is going to change lives all over the world.
Lucus Biewald, the CEO of Crowdflower, moderated and organized the event. He's a great guy, and if you're interested in crowdsourcing, you should read his blog -
http://blog.doloreslabs.com/ . The other speakers were great as well. Here is a list:
Aaron Koblin, a local artist, who created The Sheep Market, Bicycle Built for Two Thousand and Ten Thousand Cents projects.Leila Janah, a social entrepreneur who runs Samasource, our fantastic non-profit partner.Sharon Chiarella, VP at Amazon in charge of Mechanical Turk.Panos Ipeirotis NYU Stern school professor who writes one of my favorite blogs on crowdsourcing and Mechanical Turk.If you want too see an amazing visualization of the power of crowdsourcing, go to Aaron Koblin's website - http://www.tenthousandcents.com/. It's amazing.
If you want to get into the underlying coding and theory behind crowdsourcing, go to Panos Ipeirotis blog -http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com.
If you want to learn about how crowdsourcing is going to save millions from poverty, go to http://www.samasource.com/.
Ok, I've got to go. I've got a board meeting this afternoon. :)
