these are not professional photographers. the internet allows for you to do anything anywhere. it does not discriminate against those with and without degrees and credentials. anyone can post anything. anyone can meke money.
these photographers are running out professionals for a fraction of the price because the buyers are not looking for credentials. they're looking for a product for cheap
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Claudia Menashe needed pictures of sick people. A project director at the National Health Museum in Washington, DC, Menashe was putting together a series of interactive kiosks devoted to potential pandemics like the avian flu.
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Menashe was interested in about four shots, so for Harmel, this could be a sale worth $600.
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After several weeks of back-and-forth, Menashe emailed Harmel to say that, regretfully, the deal was off. “I discovered a stock photo site called iStockphoto,” she wrote, “which has images at very affordable prices.” That was an understatement. The same day, Menashe licensed 56 pictures through iStockphoto – for about $1 each.
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The product Harmel offers is no longer scarce.
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Welcome to the age of the crowd. Just as distributed computing projects like UC Berkeley’s SETI@home have tapped the unused processing power of millions of individual computers, so distributed labor networks are using the Internet to exploit the spare processing power of millions of human brains.
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All these companies grew up in the Internet age and were designed to take advantage of the networked world. But now the productive potential of millions of plugged-in enthusiasts is attracting the attention of old-line businesses, too. For the last decade or so, companies have been looking overseas, to India or China, for cheap labor. But now it doesn’t matter where the laborers are – they might be down the block, they might be in Indonesia – as long as they are connected to the network
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It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.
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It took a while for Harmel to recognize what was happening. “When the National Health Museum called, I’d never heard of iStockphoto,” he says. “But now, I see it as the first hole in the dike.” In 2000, Harmel made roughly $69,000 from a portfolio of 100 stock photographs, a tidy addition to what he earned from commissioned work. Last year his stock business generated less money – $59,000 – from more than 1,000 photos. That’s quite a bit more work for less money.
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All these companies grew up in the Internet age and were designed to take advantage of the networked world. But now
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iStockphoto, which grew out of a free image-sharing exchange used by a group of graphic designers, had undercut Harmel by more than 99 percent.
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At first, the stock industry aligned itself against iStockphoto and other so-called microstock agencies like ShutterStock and Dreamstime.
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But now it doesn’t matter where the laborers are
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as long as they are connected to the network
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Hobbyists, part-timers, and dabblers suddenly have a market for their effort
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It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.
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Menashe was putting together a series of interactive kiosks devoted to potential pandemics like the avian flu.
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In October 2004, she ran across a stock photo collection by Mark Harmel, a freelance photographer living in Manhattan Beach, California.
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After several weeks of back-and-forth, Menashe emailed Harmel to say that, regretfully, the deal was off.
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At first, the stock industry aligned itself against iStockphoto and other so-called microstock agencies like ShutterStock and Dreamstime.
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All these companies grew up in the Internet age and were designed to take advantage of the networked world.
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The labor isn’t always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees. It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.
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In 2000, Harmel made roughly $69,000 from a portfolio of 100 stock photographs, a tidy addition to what he earned from commissioned work. Last year his stock business generated less money – $59,000 – from more than 1,000 photos. That’s quite a bit more work for less money.
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“I just don’t see much of a future for professional stock photography,”
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All these companies grew up in the Internet age and were designed to take advantage of the networked world.
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Technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals. Hobbyists, part-timers, and dabblers suddenly have a market for their efforts, as smart companies in industries as disparate as pharmaceuticals and television discover ways to tap the latent talent of the crowd. The labor isn’t always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees. It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.
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iStockphoto, which grew out of a free image-sharing exchange used by a group of graphic designers, had undercut Harmel by more than 99 percent.
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“If someone’s going to cannibalize your business, better it be one of your other businesses,”
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The open source software movement proved that a network of passionate, geeky volunteers could write code just as well as the highly paid developers at Microsoft or Sun Microsystems.
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All these companies grew up in the Internet age and were designed to take advantage of the networked world. But now the productive potential of millions of plugged-in enthusiasts is attracting the attention of old-line businesses
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juansito76Technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals. Hobbyists, part-timers, and dabblers suddenly have a market for their efforts, as smart companies in industries as disparate as pharmaceuticals and television discover ways to tap the latent talent of the crowd. The labor isn’t always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees. It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.
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Technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals. Hobbyists, part-timers, and dabblers suddenly have a market for their efforts, as smart companies in industries as disparate as pharmaceuticals and television discover ways to tap the latent talent of the crowd. The labor isn’t always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees. It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.
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The Rise of Crowdsourcing
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.
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By creating a marketplace for the work of amateur photographers – homemakers, students, engineers, dancers. There are now about 22,000 contributors to the site, which charges between $1 and $5 per basic image.
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Technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.
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al-Amjad Tawfiq Isstaif"Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. "
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Liz AlstottHow crowdsourcing is affecting businesses, both small and large.
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“I negotiate my rate all the time,” Harmel says. “But how can I compete with a dollar?”
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He can’t, of course. For Harmel, the harsh economics lesson was clear: The product Harmel offers is no longer scarce. Professional-grade cameras now cost less than $1,000. With a computer and a copy of Photoshop, even entry-level enthusiasts can create photographs rivaling those by professionals like Harmel. Add the Internet and powerful search technology, and sharing these images with the world becomes simple.
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And companies like eBay and MySpace have built profitable businesses that couldn’t exist without the contributions of users.
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All these companies grew up in the Internet age and were designed to take advantage of the networked world. But now the productive potential of millions of plugged-in enthusiasts is attracting the attention of old-line businesses, too. For the last decade or so, companies have been looking overseas, to India or China, for cheap labor. But now it doesn’t matter where the laborers are – they might be down the block, they might be in Indonesia – as long as they are connected to the network.
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Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.
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Jonathon Richterhere's where the word "crowdsourcing" originated
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Patrick DanielsRemember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.
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Gideon BurtonThe original article in which Jeff Howe coined the term "crowdsourcing" in June, 2006
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Scott WilliamsThis is from the June 2006 Wired article where the term crowdsourcing was first coined.
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Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.
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Technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals. Hobbyists, part-timers, and dabblers suddenly have a market for their efforts, as smart companies in industries as disparate as pharmaceuticals and television discover ways to tap the latent talent of the crowd. The labor isn’t always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees. It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.
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iStockphoto, which grew out of a free image-sharing exchange
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Cristina A“The Rise of Crowdsourcing”, article de Jeff Howe publicat a
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danWhere the crowdsourcing meme lifted off from, and some inserting perspectives on the protestant mechanical turk ethic.
crowdsourcing opensource collaborative economics ethics mechanicalturk netcultures for:miriaml
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Ingrid LussyRemember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.
By Jeff Howetechnology social innovation internet crowdsourcing collaboration web2.0 article wired projeto
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By creating a marketplace for the work of amateur photographers – homemakers, students, engineers, dancers.
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Add Sticky NoteUnlike professionals, iStockers don’t need to clear $130,000 a year from their photos just to break even; an extra $130 does just fine.
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True enough, but it also shows the mass-crowd effect: if the filtering is good enough you will find great quality pictures at a bargain price. Professionals in photography simply have a higher success rate per photo taken.
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work of amateur photographers
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tap the latent talent of the crowd
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The product Harmel offers is no longer scarce
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istributed labor networks are using the Internet to exploit the spare processing power of millions of human brains. The open source software movement proved that a network of passionate, geeky volunteers could write code just as well as the highly paid developers at Microsoft or Sun Microsystems.
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undercut Harmel by more than 99 percent
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Steve YangWriting 140 Article
Discusses the rise of crowdsorucing, or using amateurs to dratmatically enlarge scopes of things like picture collections. A single professional could not hope to match the possibilities that a thousand amateurs could generate.-
I discovered a stock photo site called iStockphoto,” she wrote, “which has images at very affordable prices.”
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By creating a marketplace for the work of amateur photographers – homemakers, students, engineers, dancers
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For Harmel, the harsh economics lesson was clear: The product Harmel offers is no longer scarce.
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At first, the stock industry aligned itself against iStockphoto and other so-called microstock agencies like ShutterStock and Dreamstime. Then, in February, Getty Images, the largest agency by far with more than 30 percent of the global market, purchased iStockphoto for $50 million
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Just as distributed computing projects like UC Berkeley’s SETI@home have tapped the unused processing power of millions of individual computers, so distributed labor networks are using the Internet to exploit the spare processing power of millions of human brains.
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Welcome to the age of the crowd
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All these companies grew up in the Internet age and were designed to take advantage of the networked world. But now the productive potential of millions of plugged-in enthusiasts is attracting the attention of old-line businesses, too.
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But now it doesn’t matter where the laborers are – they might be down the block, they might be in Indonesia – as long as they are connected to the network.
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“I just don’t see much of a future for professional stock photography,” he says.
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$100 to $150 per photograph. “That’s about half of what a corporate client would pay,” he says. Menashe was interested in about four shots, so for Harmel, this could be a sale worth $600.
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“I discovered a stock photo site called iStockphoto,”
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which has images at very affordable prices.” That was an understatement. The same day, Menashe licensed 56 pictures through iStockphoto – for about $1 each
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I negotiate my rate all the time,” Harmel says. “But how can I compete with a dollar?”
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joliveauThe Rise of Crowdsourcing. Original paper of Jeff Howe
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Public Stiky Notes
these photographers are running out professionals for a fraction of the price because the buyers are not looking for credentials. they're looking for a product for cheap
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