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This ten-minute video uses the protein-folding game FoldIt and another crowdsourced science game called EteRNA as examples. Speaker Adrien Treuille (from CMU) talks about rewards in these types of crowdsourcing games starting around 5:50. He envisions scientific discovery, software development, product design, and societal change being "solved" in the future through a platform that allows for finding, engaging, and paying people at a very individual level: "Find Me, Engage Me, Pay Me."

This takes rewards to a whole new level. Do you think people contribute to this website because the are motivated by the cash rewards or because they are genuinely interested in problem solving?

An attempt to crowdsource Harvard alums to contribute to the community of a new MOOC.

Providing multiple means of access to improve engagement- here is a way to add subtitles to instructional videos posted on Youtube.  

A new online game uses crowdsourcing to find out how to save humans from extinction.