The Wall Street Journal tells us that a few of Odesk’s earliest employees have split to create a new freelance task marketplace similar to that offered by Fiverr, GigWalk, Zirtual, TaskRabbit, etc. It’s called Rev. Rev’s unique selling proposition is that instead of offering services for individuals, it caters to companies that need occasional...

Night in Madrid, blue and tender Spanish moon makes silver splendor Music throbbing, plaintive sobbing notes of a guitar While ardent caballeros serenade Meet Sheila (silaeu), your lady of Spain. She’s worked as a translator for over two decades. She will translate any kind of document, except medical, legal and engineering texts. You Internet marketing types...

If you’ve been following recent events on the small island nation of Cyprus, you know that the European Central Bank and the Eurozone authorities are demanding Cyprus levy a tax on the bank accounts of its citizens. Cyprus banks have been closed for more than a week to prevent people from yanking out all their money, as that would surely happen in these...

It’s Fiverr’s third anniversary and to celebrate, they’re establishing a foothold in the U.S. to “more closely engage with our American community”, as Micha Kaufman puts it. Why New York? Beats us. It’s not even remotely representative of the U.S. as a whole. Sure hope the new Fiverr staffers are getting more than $5 a gig,...

OK, we admit it. We don’t know that much about pepijn, this Fiverr seller. We’re not even sure if he’s a he or she’s a she. (We’re thinking he, though. Pepijn is Dutch for “Pippin.”) But he asked us to review his gigs, so here we are. Do you have any videoclips, music, podcasts, interviews, (background) images, textures...

[Parts One and Two of this series are here and here.] This crowdsourcing series has gotten a lot of views. Thanks for your support. We’re pleased to report we found a graphics seller who is friendly, flexible and pleasant to deal with: actualreviewnet. He sent us three logo drafts for our perusal. We got quite a kick out of the pink logo: It looks like...

[Part two of a series. Part one is here.] Our mission is to find 10 graphic artists on Fiverr, give them all the same criteria, and see what happens. Here’s our job spec: The logo will be for AngelCatEarrings.com, which is a site devoted to earrings depicting cats as angels. No slogan. The angel kitty meme is popular among women who have lost their beloved...

So you’ve spent some time going through the listings on Fiverr, paying special attention to seller ratings and feedback. You made your gig choice carefully and submitted payment. Then the seller comes back and requests a mutual cancellation. The dog ate their laptop, it’s the wrong phase of the moon or you are just too goshdarned unreasonable to expect...