Crowdsourcing applications and platforms
AnHai Doan, Michael J. M. Franklin, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2011
Over the past decade, crowdsourcing has emerged as a major problem-solving and data-gathering paradigm on the World-Wide Web. Well-known examples of crowdsourcing include Wikipedia, Linux, Yahoo! Answers, YouTube, Mechanical Turk-based applications, and much effort is being directed toward developing many more.