07-31-2012
Ground photo shows face ascent, ridge descent and fall location.

Timeline of Satellite Search and Rescue

As you may have read, our good friends Gil and Ben went missing while climbing in the Peruvian Andes. We quickly realized that, even from 4,000 miles away, with current satellite imagery and...

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05-10-2012
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The Top Five Reasons to Volunteer Online

  Crowdsourcing, microtasking, citizen science. If you have been following tech developments in the last few years, you have probably encountered all of these new terms and then some. What does it all...

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04-26-2012
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Shay has been appointed as a Crowd Leader!

We are proud to announce that Tomnod CEO Shay Har-Noy, Ph.D has been invited to becomeĀ a Crowd Leader at the Daily Crowdsource.   The Daily Crowdsource is the predominant source of crowdsourcing news...

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04-11-2012
Dr. Michael Goodchild

Michael Goodchild: Online Volunteerism Will Become Mainstream

VGI or Volunteered Geographic Information, has become an increasingly powerful use of crowdsourcing over the last five years. Online volunteers across the world complete microtasks to map communities and geographic features. Popular platforms...

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03-21-2012
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Our Favorite #PaddyTimes Photos!

Thank you to all who contributed to our St. Patrick’s Day TweetMap #PaddyTimes! We truly enjoyed watching your contributions come in and watch the map of Ireland become more festive every day. As...

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03-01-2012
Afgooye_Optimal_Radius

Counting with CrowdRank

Q: Can you help me find all the buildings in an area the size of San Francisco … in a far away land? A: Sure! The Tomnod crowd can help you analyze satellite...

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02-13-2012
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Afgooye Mapper Results and Thanks to our Mapsters!

  Dear Mapsters, A belated, but massive and very sincere THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our Afgooye crowdsourcing project last November. We were overwhelmed with the response and the dedication that...

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02-10-2012
Tomnod

Seven Ways to Grow the Crowd

  At Tomnod, our motto is “crowdsource the world” — we’re exploring our planet in new, data-driven ways. A key part of any crowdsourcing challenge is, of course, the crowd! We always need...

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11-20-2011
Albert at TEDx

Tomnod Founder Albert Yu-Min Lin at TedX

Tomnod Founder, Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin, gave a stirring talk at the recent TEDx meeting in Washington DC where he described the power of a network of human minds to perform visual analytic...

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