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Death 2.0: Crowdsourcing the rest of your (after)life
September 22, 2011 Share Years before Twitter and Farmville took over our lives, philosophers were worried that computers were changing the nature of human existence. (Yes, I watched The Matrix again on the weekend.) With the rise of social media, this idea has now gone a step further: can computers change what it means to be dead?
A few weeks ago, while watching TED videos to escape the …
Twitter Predictions: the future is just 140 characters away
August 1, 2011… and accused of starting revolutions. From Lady Gaga to the Pope, everybody tweets.
For a Web 2.0 giant, Twitter’s functionality is surprisingly basic. But (like Ikea furniture and Forest Gump) Twitter’s simplicity is its strength. Everyday tweeters create a vast, searchable dataset of thoughts and opinions – a 140-character global mood meter. Far from being mere “cyber-babble” our collective tweets contain valuable information: what movies are popular, who we plan to vote for, …
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business, crowd, crowdsourcing, distributed work, Hedge fund, HP Labs, Indiana University, Lady Gaga, microwork, Pope, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Leave a commentVizWiz: what the crowd sees is what you get
June 9, 2011… Average response time was 67 seconds at a cost of $0.07 per question. A second trial (VizWiz 2.0) with better photo software and a larger pool of workers cut the average time to 27 seconds (although at an increased cost).
Killer app or stop-gap?
VizWiz is clearly an idea with potential, but is it a long term-solution or just a quick-fix while we wait for AI to catch up with the crowd? Are crowd-computer collaborations doomed to be the minidisc (as opposed to the mp3) of disabled …
Down on MyFarm: gamification goes rural
May 26, 2011… agriculture, the owners of the Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire, UK have decided to let the web 2.0 generation have a go for real.
The idea behind MyFarm is simple: invite an online crowd of 10,000 users to run a real farm for a year. Organizers hope the project will “reconnect people with where their food comes from.” Members of the MyFarm community will discuss and vote on every aspect of farming life: what to grow, what to breed, what to buy. Whatever the crowd decides, as long …
Science and the “Nobel” art of gaming
March 31, 2011 Share As regular readers will know, here at Microtask we love a bit of science fun. Back in November we blogged about Foldit , a freely-available online protein-folding game. Foldit players contribute directly to scientific discovery: the more proteins they fold, the closer scientists get to curing diseases like Alzheimer’s and AIDS.
Refusing to be out-innovated by mere …
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