DO one assigned task on your computer. It shouldn’t take you more than two seconds. Repeat 14,399 times. Congratulations! Your eight-hour work day is complete. No such workplace yet exists, but with ...

A crowdsourcing startup, Microtask, is ripping crowdsourced labor into even smaller pieces. Microtask’s automated platform splits dull, repetitive tasks into tiny pieces and distributes them over the ...

Microtask has undertaken the enormous task of crowdsourcing the National Library of Finland — the process of digitizing its paper-only documents, to be more specific. Microtask and the library ...

At first glance, Microsoft's proposal to fill employees' spare time with small tasks seems like a boon for workplace productivity. Don't be fooled, Brien warns. I recently read a fascinating article ...

The National Library of Finland has turned to crowdsourcing to clean up errors in digitised documents. Volunteers are rewarded by turning the tasks into a game.

Microtask platforms recruit humans to do the rating, tagging, review-writing, and poll-taking work that can’t quite be automated with an algorithm yet. In the US, the most common such platform is ...

Demonstrating global appeal, Microtask’s online gaming experience combines entertainment and volunteer work for conserving Finnish cultural heritage Helsinki, Finland – 17th March 2011 – Europe’s ...