Crowd sourcing

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unidesigner edited this page May 3, 2011 · 5 revisions

A good summary on the topic of how to build a crow-sourcing community:

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/4/106563-crowdsourcing-systems-on-the-world-wide-web/fulltext#

A GoogleTalk from the founder of StackOverflow is very insightful: Learning from StackOverflow.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ&feature=relmfu

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Also helpful for extending our schema are the descriptions of the stackoverflow tables: http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding_the_StackOverflow_Database_Schema