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My Wife, the Computer
December 5, 2009… if you’re smart, provide chocolate biscuits at afternoon tea.
This question is the focus of David Alan Grier’s book When Computers Were Human which outlines the pre-information age story of “human computers” doing calculations by hand – not just the straightforward office-worker’s calculation of how many days left until Friday; but complicated, multifaceted problems such as those required for astronomy, cartography, navigation, and (unsurprisingly) warfare. This required …
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computer, David Alan Grier, human computation, Manhattan Project, mass collaboration, Richard Feynman | Leave a commentTwo’s company, three’s a crowd conference: CrowdConf 2010
September 1, 2010… coined crowdsourcing in 2006), the bestselling authors Tim Ferriss, Jonathan Zittrain and David Alan Grier, and the CEOs of some of the most exciting new crowdsourcing businesses such as Crowdflower, Samasource, Keniks, uTest, Odesk, LiveOps and Victors and Spoils.
In addition to the guest speakers there will be a series of peer-reviewed presentation tracks and technology demonstrations. Topics for discussion include the past, present and future of crowdsourcing, …
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conference, crowdconf, Crowdflower, crowdsourcing, David Alan Grier, distributed work, jeff howe, jonathan zittrain, keniks, liveops, lukas biewald, microtask, odesk, samasource, tim ferriss, trade show, utest, victor and spoils | Leave a commentMOG: the day the music gamified
October 6, 2011… and exploring MOG”. The more you engage/play with MOG, the more music you get. MOG CEO David Hyman claims that the tank’s “sophisticated game mechanics” should mean that users never have to pay for music.
Master motivators
So, will people who won’t spend $5 per month on music be prepared to spend time watching promos and sharing playlists? Well, maybe. After all, millions of people already share music – this is just a way of rewarding and encouraging them. I guess …
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crowd, crowdsourcing, David Hyman, Enya, Facebook, Free music, Grooveshark, microwork, MOG, Rdio, Spotify | Leave a commentGDC 2011: Angry birds, happy Finns
March 21, 2011… like Finland’s gaming industry has suddenly struck it lucky. Helsinki-based studios produced Alan Wake and Angry Birds, both topping Time magazine’s top 10 list of videogames for 2010. Rovio ’s Peter Vesterbacka was swamped by people wanting photos, and a chance to find out how he managed to sell 100 million game apps featuring birds, slingshots and green space pigs.
But this success is actually a reflection on the vibrancy of the game development scene in Finland. In the …
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January 18, 2012… with valuable knowledge in the background? Research from social psychologists Justin Kruger and David Dunning may explain why we get it wrong so often.
Their experiments revealed that people generally overestimate their ability in areas they understand poorly, and underestimate their ability where their understanding is good. This is known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and is one of many cognitive biases that affect us all.
Only the lonely
In a world where we’re told to think big …
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