Take a walk. Take a picture. Get paid.
Gigwalk is an iPhone app that seems to suggest peer-to-peer is not a thing of the past. Gathering tiny parts of information from many users into a whole detailed view that a company can act on is basically the business model of Gigwalk.
Gigwalk's first customer has been TomTom maker of navigational equipment. The company knows that there will always be errors in its navigation that even a workforce of a 100.000 people would not be able to detect. The mistakes are annoying to customers, but not nearly fatal enough for the company to invest millions in fact checking every inch of every street in the world. But what if TomTom could pay someone on a street for taking a few pictures and emailing them in. That would be a game changer. And Gigwalk is counting on that.
All iPhone owners can download the app and sign up for little Gigwalk assignments. But don't expect to get rich quick. According to CEO Ariel Seidman a high earner will get 50-100 dollars a month.
There is so much location based hype going on the tech world these days. I actually think Gigwalk is one of the more promising launches and look forward to following this peer-to-peer-location-based-picture-taking service in the time to come.
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