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Needle Threads Customers Into Personal Interactions in New, Social Chat Service

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That service gave me a demo a couple weeks ago - it's called Needle , and I love it! When Needle demoed me their product, they showed off, in real time, a session of a real customer service experience. Crowdsourced Sales using Pincushion. I am a passionate Apple fanatic and I know a lot about Apple products.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.