Online outsourcing
Principle
New trends emerge based on previous needs. Today there is no need to move to another town/region/country to get the work done. This is even more true regarding tasks where no physical material is required : cognitive tasks.
For such tasks like programming, web designing, accounting, ... getting the work done is tempting.
Still key problems inherent to such methods remains : trust, culture, social leverage, ...
Goal
The goal of this page is to study the new possibilities of outsourcing and offer the best solution with counter-measure for its lacks.
Generalist
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Review | | WorkHappy.net, MindFrenzy blog | | | | |
Code oriented
Name | Rent-a-Coder | getacoder.com | scriptlance.com | Programmingbids.com | SitePoint Marketplace | Codeur.com |
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Creativity oriented
Name | Seedea? | crowdSPRING | idFlux | 99designs |
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Content oriented
Name | AmazonTurk | Intelligence-tools.com |
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See Collaborative Management Tools
Experiences
Entrepreneur side
Freelancer side
Goods practices
Entrepreneur side
Freelancer side
- turkopticon places a button next to each requester and highlights requesters for whom there are reviews from other workers. Bad reviews let you avoid shady employers and good reviews help you find fair ones.
- FreelanceSwitch Freelance Advice and Freelance Jobs
- AllFreelanceWork Freelance Jobs & Community
Crowdsourcing
- Crowdsourcing blog by Jeff Howe
- Crowdsourcing according to Wikipedia, including a step by step process and a list of recent actors
- InnoCentive Open innovation community of smart, creative people who provide solutions to tough problems in business, science, product development, ...
See also http://fabien.benetou.fr/Events/DIBarCamp#crowdsourcing
Lessons from "classical outsourcing"
References/Studies
- Size of online IT freelancing market
- KPO, Knowledge Process Outsourcing
- Introduction to Peer Production (originally called 'Network Civilization') by Michel Bauwens, November 2008
- The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services by Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb, April 2009
- Virtual Economy Research Network (VERN) News, research and discussion on virtual goods, currencies and economies globally.
- hosted at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
- Slaves of the Cyberworld, JAVA FILMS 2007
- Human Computation by Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University, AAAI 2009
- Minds For Sale: The Future of the Internet with Jonathan Zittrain, The Commonwealth Club of California November 2009
- Wikipedia:The Nature of the Firm by Ronald Coase, Economica 1937
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