With over 200 million Internet users in China, there’s bound to be someone who is willing to help you photoshop your pictures. At least that’s what Tucia, a new Chinese “witkey” website, is hoping. Users upload their photo, describe how they want their photo edited and provide a deadline. Aspiring designers, photoshoppers and students edit the photos and send back a final copy to the original photographer, all for free. Tucia follows the lead of other successful human-powered web services in China like Baidu’s popular Q&A site.
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actually,tucia.com is not another chinese ‘witkey’,because tucia is free and u will never see 100 designers bidding for one photo on tucia.
it’s better to consider tucia as an anti-chinese-witkey, while 100 users asking one hot designer for help, and the designer can choose to help or reject, just opposite to chinese witkey model.
truely, it’s a human-powered revolution for online photo processing.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:56 am
The reason I mentioned Witkey is because Tucia is similar to other Witkey websites in China who usually, but not always require a fee for answering a question or performing a service. I assumed (possibly incorrectly) that there will be a payment element (business model) added in the future when a critical mass of users is achieved.
You may want to see the blogger Luyi Chen’s from China Web2.0 Review who also calls Tucia a “Niche Witkey Community for Photoshoppers”
January 21st, 2008 at 2:17 am