Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Reuters used the ingest, moderation and transcoding capabilities of the Newsdesk Transcoder to power the Times Square billboard.
The entire system allowed users to send in photos directly from their phone, the best were selected by moderators and these were converted into an RSS feed which fed the sign directly. Users were given confirmation of their choice by SMS and the images on the sign were captured for use within the online galleries.
Tags: crowdsource tool, ugc, user generated content
Posted in Company News, Crowdsourcer |
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The BBC Word Service is rolling out 14 instances of the Stream UK Crowdsourcer to allow it to ingest content from sites around the world.
The tool has bee developed to include multi-lingual support for Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Russian, Chinese and all European languages.
Also being added is functionality that allows:
geo-tagging of content
search engine optimisation of the output
improved tools for evaluating subscribers
rss feeds to integrate with internal content management systems.
The system will be rolled out to the global audience of 150 million listens through 2008.
Tags: crowdsource tool, Crowdsourcer, crowdsourcing tool, transcoding, transcoding engine, transcoding service
Posted in Case Studies, Company News, Crowdsourcer |
Monday, August 27th, 2007
The BBC News service is one of the most authoritative sources of content in the world.
The service has commisioned the Stream UK Crowdsourcer to provide a replacement service to its over-crowded email inboxes.
The product will not only replace email submissions of breaking content, but also add usability in the form of:
- transcoding and stardisation of all images and videos received
- an intuitive and fast evaluation system that quickly lets editors evaluate content
- integration with internal content management systems through email and web 2.0 technology.
Due to the nature of the service, the highest standards of reliability and redundancy are being applied.
Tags: crowdsource tool, Crowdsourcer, crowdsourcing tool, transcoding, transcoding engine, transcoding service, video ingest moderation
Posted in Case Studies, Company News, Crowdsourcer |
