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Bringing anarchy to the creative process – When distributed work meets interesting web content
January 6, 2011… is clearly not the way to bring the crowdsourcing idea to the process of creating interesting web content. Or maybe it might work by chance – but just once.
My work in Vapa Media revolves around interesting, up to date and good web content in general. The first questions arise when one must decide, what good content actually is, and what it is not. To make it simple I think that good web content has an audience, while bad content doesn’t. What is not interesting, doesn’t exist. …
Tags: Content Management crowd crowdsourcing crowdsourcing platform distributed work Dmitry Glukhovsky Idea Metro 2033 Microsoft Site Management Web Applications Web content
Content Management, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Idea, Metro 2033, Microsoft, Site Management, Web Applications, Web content | 1 CommentFlattery will get you everywhere
May 14, 2010… eMule, WinMX and Kazaa. While all these companies allowed people to freely download digital content (whether legally or not), the cultural battle over the legitimacy of piracy became a central issue only after the birth of TPB. Subsequent years have seen the flourishing of political parties to stimulate discussion over copyright issues and demand policies better suited for the internet age.
Copyright and the future of paid content on the internet are complicated matters, obviously …
Tags: 2.0 content creation flattr P2P pirate bay reward sharing
2.0, content creation, flattr, P2P, pirate bay, reward, sharing | 3 CommentsCrimes against content: is crowdsourcing to hamsters a bridge too far?
August 18, 2011… replaced with links that benefit the mutilators.
Other mind-jarring examples contained content from multiple genuine articles. Disturbingly, these articles suggest a real (if unfortunate and/or possibly high) human being might actually have been involved in the creation of sentences like “Microtask game using a hamster to sub-tasks: to help players build hamster bridge”. Which is actually entertainingly ironic: articles about Microtask’s system of distributed work are …
War Games (or how the US military learned to love the crowd)
April 26, 2011… shape-shifting matter, laser guided bullets, flying submarines and robotic beetles. Since its creation during the cold war, DARPA has been credited with some spectacular innovations including GPS, stealth planes and the first ever internet network. But for every hit, there’s been a (usually embarrassingly wacky ) miss. Famous failures include the Vietnam mechanical war elephant and an operation to train telepathic spies. And the latest far-out DARPA scheme? Er, crowdsourcing. …
ACTUV, Anti-submarine warfare, crowd, crowdsourcing, Dangerous Waters, DARPA, microwork, NASA, Philip K Dick, Submarine, United States | 2 CommentsOnline brands: Everything you expected?
February 16, 2011… one of the reasons why companies like Vapa Media exist – people expect increasingly valuable content online. Online services must improve to meet such expectations, not remain static.
Ask to see their cards
Given that disappointing your market remains a great way to go out of business, before starting the process of online brand building, a firm should assess how much the market expects from it. The firm could measure this with a quick one question poll locked at the entrance of its …
Tags: Advertising agency brand business crowd crowdsourcing crowdsourcing platform distributed work microtask poll Web content
Advertising agency, brand, business, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, microtask, poll, Web content | 2 Comments← Older posts
