Crowdfunding

Crowdvoting's value in the movie industry was shown when in 2009 a crowd accurately
predicting the success or failure of a movie based on its trailer, a feat that was replicated in
2013 by Google.
Crowdsourcing Creative Work
Creative crowdsourcing spans sourcing creative projects such as graphic design, crowdsourcing
architecture, apparel design, movies, writing, illustration, etc. While crowdsourcing competitions
have been used for decades in some creative fields (such as architecture), creative
crowdsourcing has proliferated with the recent development of web-based platforms where
clients can solicit a wide variety of creative work at lower cost than by traditional means.
Crowdsourcing Language-Related Data Collection
Crowdsourcing has also been used for gathering language-related data. For dictionary work, as
was mentioned above, it was applied over a hundred years ago by the Oxford English
Dictionary editors, using paper and postage. Much later, a call for collecting examples of
proverbs on a specific topic (religious pluralism) was printed in a journal. Today, as
"crowdsourcing" has the inherent connotation of being web-based, such language-related data
gathering is being conducted on the web by crowdsourcing in accelerating ways. Currently, a
number of dictionary compilation projects are being conducted on the web, particularly for
languages that are not highly academically documented, such as for the Oromo language.
Software programs have been developed for crowdsourced dictionaries, such as WeSay. A
slightly different form of crowdsourcing for language data has been the online creation of
scientific and mathematical terminology for American Sign Language. Proverb collection is also
being done via crowdsourcing on the Web, most innovatively for the Pashto language of
Afghanistan and Pakistan.[84][85][86] Crowdsourcing has been extensively used to collect highquality
gold standard for creating automatic systems in natural language processing (e.g.,
named entity recognition, entity linking).
Crowdsolving
Crowdsolving is a collaborative, yet holistic, way of solving a problem
using many people, communities, groups, or resources.
Crowdsearching
Chicago-based startup Crowdfind, formerly "crowdfynd", uses a
version of crowdsourcing best termed as crowdsearching, which
differs from microwork in that no payment for taking part in the
search is made. Their platform, through geographic location
anchoring, builds a virtual search party of smartphone and
Internet users to find lost items, pets, or persons, as well as
returning them.
TrackR uses a system they call "crowd GPS" to load Bluetooth identities
to a central server to track lost or stolen items.
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