Social Site Nextdoor Wants to Connect You With Your Neighbors. This is the neighborhood picnic of the digital age. With neighborhood social network, Nextdoor, communities can stay up-to-date with everything from crime, activities and even ask the neighborhood if they can borrow the proverbial cup of sugar. Nextdoor announced on Tuesday that it just closed a new round of funding with existing and new funders: Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners and Shasta Ventures, among others, to the tune of $18.6 million. Nextdoor's CEO and Co-founder, Nirav Tolia, tells Mashable he plans to put the funding toward expanding their 32 person workforce and pushing Nextdoor out to new neighborhoods.
Already more than 3,600 neighborhoods in 48 states use Nextdoor, and about 22 new neighborhoods sign up for the service every day. This growth has allowed them to attract this most recent round of funding, Tolia says. Here's how Nextdoor works: Login to find your neighborhood and sign up. Nextdoor launched nationally Oct. 2011. Would you use Nextdoor? Nextdoor: Join the free private social network for your neighborhood. Logo Design by LogoTournament ™ Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services.
These services include ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly-evolving group of internet users; it divides work between participants to achieve a cumulative result. The word crowdsourcing itself is a portmanteau of crowd and outsourcing, and was coined in 2005.[1][2][3][4] As a mode of sourcing, crowdsourcing existed prior to the digital age (i.e. "offline").[5] There are major differences between crowdsourcing and outsourcing. Crowdsourcing comes from a less-specific, more public group, whereas outsourcing is commissioned from a specific, named group, and includes a mix of bottom-up and top-down processes.[6][7][8] Advantages of using crowdsourcing may include improved costs, speed, quality, flexibility, scalability, or diversity.[9][10] Definitions[edit] In a February 1, 2008, article, Daren C.
Historical examples[edit] Timeline of major events[edit] G. Airtasker Lets You Outsource Your Entire Life. Got a small task you need completed — let’s say assembling an IKEA bookshelf or cleaning your disgusting oven — and don’t have the time to do it yourself? Airtasker lets you advertise to find a local who might be willing to do the job for a small fee. To use Airtasker, you simply post on the site, listing what you want done and what you’re willing to pay.
Runners (the site’s term for people willing to volunteer for jobs) can then agree to perform the task, or haggle over the price. Listing a task is free. Runners pay a $2 charge plus five per cent of the total fee. (During launch phrase, Runners can sign up for nothing if they promote the site via Twitter or Facebook.) The most obvious competitor for this kind of casual labour search online is Craigslist, but that service has much less traction in Australia than the US. The service is Sydney-only right now, but will be expanding into other capital cities in the coming weeks. What small tasks would you use a service like this for? Need1 - Task Done! Get real help from local people - Personal Assistants Brisbane - Errands and odd jobs Australia | Hop Runners. TaskBox: Welcome. Microjobs.com.au. Airtasker (airtasker) Airtasker / Get it done. Task & Errand Service By Awesome, Trustworthy People.