some interesting links

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/crowdfunding-from-your-smartphone/2013/02/19/9e034aa4-7ad9-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/in-two-hours-crowdfunding-effort-draws-308000-of-interest-in-7th-street-building/2013/01/23/a77264bc-658f-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_blog.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/how-popularise-brought-crowdsourcing-to-dcs-commercial-real-estate-market/2012/06/01/gJQA0bf46U_story_2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk