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A ticket to play
March 7, 2011… of tech-seeking tourists cross the Golden Gate Bridge to attend events: the Game Developers Conference, Apple Keynotes, the Web 2.0 Summit – there’s an expo for everyone.
In such a tech-friendly town, it’s not surprising that computing is spreading into public spaces, affecting the way citizens interact with their urban environment. The first stop? That most boring of public places: the bus stop.
Routed to the stop
In late 2010 large touch screens were installed in 20 bus …
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October 14, 2010… to my favorite destination a few weeks ago, to speak at the Icelandic Gaming Industry (IGI) Conference 2010. In attendance were relevant companies from the gaming world including Gogogic (Vikings of Thule), Betware, and Mindgames.
For Microtask, it was an unmissable opportunity to discuss our vision for the gaming industry – or so I told my board, when convincing them to send me. Even though they were aware of my predisposition for anything involving this crazy little …
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Betware, CCP, distributed work, EVE Online, Gogogic, Icelandic Gaming Industry, microtask, microwork, Mindgames, MMO, Pablos Holmen, The IGI Conference 2010, Vikings of Thule | Leave a commentCrowdconvention 2011: a designer’s tale
June 27, 2011… to discover that the word “microtask” is now in common use.
Another (slightly less welcome) conference buzzword was “our platform”, an expression which seemed to mean anything from a barely-defined idea to a fully-developed service. We see this as more than just a semantic problem: while many companies have some kind of working platform, in practice most seem to suffer from a lack of specialization. We think that more focus on specific problems would improve the services these …
2011: a crowded year
May 4, 2011… if you wish to attend.
Crowdconvention
Next up is Europe’s first ever crowdsourcing conference: Crowdconvention. Taking place on June 15th in Berlin, the convention (co-sponsored by Microtask) will offer “space for discussion, exchange of information and possibilities for new partnerships” (hopefully served up with some decent beer). The packed schedule includes crowdsourcing A-listers such as Richard Lewis from Clickworker, Lukas Biewald from CrowdFlower, Pia …
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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