It's All Money: Virtual Currency Inspires Online Workers as Much as the Real Thing
Last October, we pointed out an interesting new type of offer in social games: players who wanted to earn virtual currency could click on an in-game offer by Gambit, a virtual goods monetization company, which would send them to complete real work for real-world companies.
We recently caught up with CrowdFlower, the company that assigns the workers to their tasks, to see how the partnership is working. CrowdFlower has a good overview, since it functions as an intermediary between companies with jobs to do — everything from doing online rating and tagging to transcription services — and crowdsourced labor.
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