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Behind the façade: How crowdsourcing will bring videogames to life
August 4, 2010… Now, more than ever, is an exciting time for the industry as number of developments – notably cloud computing – seem likely to revolutionize the way we interact with computers.
What began as an industry dominated by the conquests of mythological lone programmers, now relies more on the collective efforts of a studio. While the lone programmers still exist, the colossal amount of work required to create modern games means their influence is much diminished.
Standing on the …
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ai, cloud, crowdsourcing, E3, façade, human intelligence, Kinect, milo, Peter Molyneux, Rob Gilbert, Shigeru Miyamoto, TedGlobal, Will Wright | 5 CommentsCrowdsourcing democracy: was the Arab Spring over-hyped?
October 26, 2011 Share © Photos by Hanna Sistek @Sistek
This year, crowdsourced journalism has really “hit the headlines”. From journalists crowdfunding their own investigations, to The Guardian newspaper crowdsourcing its editorial policy.
Of course, the biggest crowdsourced news scoop of 2011 is the Arab Spring. From Morocco to Bahrain, citizens risked their lives to film, …
Crowdconvention 2011: a designer’s tale
June 27, 2011… guru gave a visually beautiful talk on the different areas of crowdsourcing (crowd funding, cloud labor, open innovation etc) and how to connect each of them to businesses.
Overall, Crowdconvention was quite an eye-opener. There’s much more I could discuss – Jeff Howe’s talk, the crowdsourced newspaper, Nokia’s total lack of crowdsourcing imagination – sadly however, time is rarely a senior designer’s best friend. We would love to hear what other attendees made of …
Grandma knows best: experiments in distributed education
February 24, 2011… try recruiting Korean grandmas to bring literacy back up).
And the next step? The “Granny Cloud”. While working at Newcastle University, Professor Mitra recruited over 200 UK grandmothers as volunteers. Broadcasting via webcam each “grandmother” spends at least an hour a week encouraging classes of Indian school children. Some of the Indian locations are so remote that the Granny Cloud is the only access kids have to education.
Grey Power
It’s a cute story, but there’s …
Language Lessons: translating the global conversation
February 21, 2011… is now starting to evolve. Google, in particular, has pioneered new techniques that work by using cloud computing to trawl through and analyze huge numbers of multilingual documents online.
On the web, English remains dominant, and businesses still have to speak English to survive (except in Denmark, according to our Travelling Salesman ). However, the development of web 2.0, mobile internet and broadband mean people are spending more and more personal time online. And, as life gets …
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