Videos

Interview With crowdSPRING’s John Yang

Ross | August 7th, 2009

We’re very lucky. We have a great community and an awesome team. Meet one of our newest crowdSPRINGers – John (one of our senior software engineers). John is a true nomad. He came to the US from China at the age of 16, and while working towards his college degree, he enjoyed life and culture [...]

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How NOT to Entertain Your Team

Ross | August 6th, 2009

Mike and I are always ready to entertain our team. Mike reads French poetry, which he translates on the fly into English. For some odd reason, he insists that we play French music while he is reading (we tried Swedish music, and the results were pretty horrible. We’re still recovering from that episode). I don’t [...]

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Interview With crowdSPRING’s Tal Liron

Ross | July 29th, 2009

We’re very lucky. We have a great community and an awesome team.  Meet one of our newest crowdSPRINGers – Tal. Tal speaks more languages than we do, can twist his body into yoga positions (most of which look really dangerous – and unhealthy), and, without doubt, colors outside the lines. Tal’s been writing software since [...]

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How crowdSPRING Works – The (Very Short) Movie

Ross | July 17th, 2009

Most people say that a book is way better than a movie. But we’re not dummies. We know you won’t read a 500 page novel about how crowdSPRING works. Instead – here’s a 1 minute 42 second movie.

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Can A Dog Get a Job At crowdSPRING? You Bet!

Ross | June 5th, 2009

Here’s one of the best perks (for me) at crowdSPRING – I get to spend every working day with Pete’s chocolate lab, Lucy. Here’s Lucy: Lucy (Pete’s Chocolate Lab) from Ross Kimbarovsky on Vimeo.

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Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?

Ross | May 22nd, 2009

Today is Shakespearean sonnet day at crowdSPRING. We all took turns reading sonnets. Here’s Kevin, who was brave (or not too smart?) to let us video him… Kevin DeLury Reading Shakespeare from Ross Kimbarovsky on Vimeo.

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A Three Minute Interview With Ross About crowdSPRING

Ross | May 12th, 2009

Last week, I traveled to Hamburg Germany for the next09 conference. After my presentation (titled “Crowdsourcing Creative”) I was interviewed about crowdSPRING. Here’s a short (3 minute) segment from that discussion. We talked about crowdSPRING, the advantages and disadvantages of crowdsourcing, the reaction from agencies, and other topics. Here’s the interview.   Link:

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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before…

Kevin | May 1st, 2009

So a guy walks into crowdSPRING… …that’s all I’ve got so far. Still working on it. Greetings and salutations, crowdSPRINGERs! Kevin DeLury here, doing all the new guy stuff that new guys are wont to. So far my time here has consisted of scuttlework: scrubbing the floors, polishing ping pong balls and re-doing the grip [...]

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Short Interview: Ryan Graves (SocialDreamium)

Ross | April 21st, 2009

At crowdSPRING, we love meeting other people and companies and often invite guests for lunch with our team. A few weeks ago, Ryan Graves of SocialDreamium (Ryan’s startup) joined the crowdSPRING team for lunch. Ryan currently works for General Electric in Wisconsin. SocialDremium is a startup involved with building web-based communities. Ryan had recently returned [...]

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crowdSPRING on TV

Ross | April 17th, 2009

A few days ago, Northwestern University’s Co-Director of Intelligent Information Laboratory, Kris Hammond, appeared on the TV show Chicago Tonight (channel 11 in Chicago) to talk about crowdsourcing. Hammond talked about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, crowdSPRING and Threadless. Here’s the video:

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