Web Services & Application Store Blog

Our “App of the week” blog series continues. This week we are happy to talk about a whole new kind of application, “People as a Service”, provided by humangrid.

What is humangrid: humangrid is an international, managed and paid crowdsourcing-platform. Over 10.000 so called Clickworkers are ready to work for you on demand.

This can be very useful in all cases that are hard to automate. One example is the creation and modification of content, especially free text, like, as one example, product descriptions.

The first service is already available as applications in the zanox Application Store.

“SEO text create” lets publishers ask the humangrid service to create unique, search engine optimized texts for use on your website. Publishers will need to explain briefly the topic and length of the text, which keywords you would like to have included, how often, and which language you would like the text to be in, as the service is international and all major european languages are supported.

A second upcoming service will be “Product description create” that will let advertisers and publishers create product descriptions. In this case users will just supply a web link to a product page and ask the Clickworkers to supply a new, unique product description for the product shown on that website. Also available in various lengths and languages the normal turnaround time will be only a few hours.

You can find the application here. Enjoy!

Your zanox Web Service team

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