The term "Crowdsourcing" which was coined by Jeff Howe in 2006 in Wired Magazine is now becoming a mainstream business. Today crowdsourcing is a billion dollar industry and is being used by several small, medium and big sizes firm to solve their business problems.
Industry watchdog Crowdsourcing.org, reported a 75% increase in revenue last year to $376 million, up from $215 million in 2010 and $141 in 2009 in crowdsourcing industry.
By definition, Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call. Crowdsourcing is all around us, and being used by brands that we use everyday.
May 24, 2012
May 1, 2012
A Trip to Remember
My friends often ask me, what do engineers at CloudFactory do to wind up when they get tired of hacking? Well, they go for hiking, sometime bungee jump and sometime movie. Wait, they do lot more than hiking, they are fond of flying in the clouds too. Literally. Here is what we did in our last trip to Pokhara.
Our planned annual team-building trip to Jiri got postponed at the last moment on December last year because of the blockades on the highway. That was a bad experience for us, however we rescheduled our team-building trip to Pokhara on first week of April after four months.
On 5th April, the CloudFactory family left CloudFactory complex at 7:45 am in a Tourist bus for our annual team-building trip to Pokhara. We picked our remaining CloudFactory members on the way. Passing through the hilly roads, after 3 hours of a long ride along Prithvi Highway, we stopped in Malekhu for an hour and had Lunch in ‘The Blue Heaven Restaurant, Benighat’ sitting by the bank of Trisuli River.
Our planned annual team-building trip to Jiri got postponed at the last moment on December last year because of the blockades on the highway. That was a bad experience for us, however we rescheduled our team-building trip to Pokhara on first week of April after four months.
On 5th April, the CloudFactory family left CloudFactory complex at 7:45 am in a Tourist bus for our annual team-building trip to Pokhara. We picked our remaining CloudFactory members on the way. Passing through the hilly roads, after 3 hours of a long ride along Prithvi Highway, we stopped in Malekhu for an hour and had Lunch in ‘The Blue Heaven Restaurant, Benighat’ sitting by the bank of Trisuli River.