Lukas Biewald interviewed at Web 2.0 Expo New York

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Defines a practical split between crowdsourcing vs distributed work, citing LiveOps and oDesk/Elance/Guru/TopCoder as transactional distributed labor while Wikipedia and Facebook translation feel like unpaid crowdsourcing, argues CrowdFlower sells “labor on demand” and increasingly uses virtual currency uptake as a significant payment channel, warns of ethical problems and investor risk without clear minimum wage and regulation, says the company invites policy and legal scrutiny and believes virtual currency will gain legitimacy.

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1. 0:00Difference between crowdsourcing and distributed work
2. 1:05Difference in outcome
3. 1:33Addressing criticisms
4. 2:17Responding to criticism
5. 2:55Paying people in virtual currency
6. 3:36The allure of virtual currency

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