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VizWiz: what the crowd sees is what you get
June 9, 2011… my iPhone/ Android/ Blackberry” is just a figure of speech. We might love (or in the case of Apple fanboys, worship) our gadgets but the majority of us would probably still function without 24-hour access to touch-screens, wifi, and Plants vs. Zombies. For many disabled people however, access to technology can be literally life-changing.
Over the past couple of decades there’s been a quiet revolution in “disabled access technology”: un-sexy, practical applications that help …
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Android, apple, crowd, crowdsourcing, Disability, distributed work, iPhone, microtask, microwork, research, Speech recognition, United States | Leave a commentTeleVisions of the future
October 21, 2010… like to watch shows together and at the same time as their friends see them. Despite attempts from Apple and Microsoft, most people still watch TV the way they always have.
If it only had a brain
Things are changing though. While only a few years ago the amount of video available on the internet was limited, now there is a huge amount, with most major networks offering free content. Hulu, a website that offers shows from three of America’s four big broadcasters, streamed more than 1 …
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apple TV, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, current TV, distributed work, google TV, Microsoft, streaming | Leave a commentFace it Steve, you need help
March 8, 2010… blame stress (or more precisely long hours and a lack of free time). Stress and Steve Jobs.
An Apple a Day
It all started three years ago, when I bought my first Apple. Despite the social stigma that seems to come with the territory, I’m a very satisfied customer ( check these comments on Engadget after a major Apple release to see how a blog post looks when burnt to ashes).
Even so, I wouldn’t class myself in the much-maligned category of “Apple fanboy”: I don’t have the …
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apple, face recognition, iphoto, mac, Steve Jobs | 3 CommentsMOG: the day the music gamified
October 6, 2011… 16-year-olds seem to think unlimited downloads are a basic human right. Sometimes it seems like Apple shareholders are the only ones who make a decent living from the industry anymore.
The recent Spotify-Facebook deal has pumped up the volume of online debate. Since the “deep integration” of the two companies was announced, Spotify has gained 1 million users and, simultaneously, managed to enrage the entire blogosphere. As a Facebook user, I’ve noticed a sudden avalanche of …
Crowdsourcing: an ancient Finnish tradition?
June 13, 2011 Share Crowdsourcing is generally considered to be a modern invention. Like many people, I first came across the term in Jeff Howe’s 2006 article The Rise of Crowdsourcing . I was impressed by Jeff’s ideas, but reading the article I began to think: “somehow this concept sounds very familiar”.
Then I realized why. Crowdsourcing is really just a new name for a very old …
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