CloudCrowd is a relatively new site that pays members to do small tasks. Similar to working as a Amazon Mechanical Turk at Cloud Crowd you will earn a few cents to a few dollars per task.
The type of work at Cloud Crowd varies but according to their FAQ
“Typical projects include image and video tagging, finding information online, and quick writing and editing projects. Work ranges in difficulty, and longer tasks typically pay more. With the variety of work offered, we’re sure you’ll find tasks you enjoy.”
Some of the jobs require that you pass a qualifications test. So you may have to edit a paragraph or do another job in order to get the qualifications to complete certain types of tasks.
One nice perk of working for CloudCrowd is being able to decide how long and when you want to work. But the major perk is next day payment. For all jobs approved by 5pm PST payment is made the next business day.
The drawbacks are they do not appear to have a lot of work and payment is low. When I looked at the CloudCrowd list I saw a few translation jobs, editing jobs and evaluating profiles on a social site but that was it. I would expect the job list will expand as the company grows. Payment is low but if you need to make some extra cash it is a quick source.
So far CloudCrowd claims to have paid out for over 400,00 tasks and 18,000 people have signed up to be CloudCroud workers.
To join CloudCrowd you need two things a Paypal account and a Facebook account. Why they have chosen to conduct their business via Facebook I am not sure but it is easy to sign up there and see the daily jobs. You can also sign up for alerts to be notified of new jobs.
