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Microtask Selected to Rule the Globe
November 21, 2011Share Well, almost… Red Herring picked Microtask as a finalist in their 2011 Top 100 Global award. I got the call from Alex Vieux himself a couple of days ago. We edged out close to 1000 companies from 40 different countries who submitted nominations, and we were invited to present our winning crowdsourcing strategy at the Red Herring Global forum in Los Angeles next month. …
2011, crowd, crowdsourcing, Finalist, microwork, RedHerring | Leave a commentDeath 2.0: Crowdsourcing the rest of your (after)life
September 22, 2011 Share Years before Twitter and Farmville took over our lives, philosophers were worried that computers were changing the nature of human existence. (Yes, I watched The Matrix again on the weekend.) With the rise of social media, this idea has now gone a step further: can computers change what it means to be dead?
A few weeks ago, while watching TED videos to escape the …
And the crowdsourcing award goes to…
September 8, 2011 Share These days crowdsourcing is (more or less) an officially recognized industry. We’ve got books, conferences, and even a proper dictionary definition . But, until now, crowdsourcing has lacked one thing that every self-respecting industry needs: a glittering awards ceremony. Luckily, help is near.
This September, crowdsourcing news site The Daily Crowdsource has …
Twitter Predictions: the future is just 140 characters away
August 1, 2011 Share Consider Twitter: 200 million users, 7 languages, 1 billion tweets a week. Since it was founded in 2006, the site has been hyped, ridiculed, subpoenaed (by the U.S government no less) and accused of starting revolutions. From Lady Gaga to the Pope , everybody tweets.
For a Web 2.0 giant, Twitter’s functionality is surprisingly basic. But (like Ikea furniture and …
From January to June: six months of micro (and macro) work
July 6, 2011Share Believe it or not, it has been over six months since our last Microtask news update . Back in the chilly depths of December, we wondered what new crowdsourcing delights (and disasters) 2011 might bring. Now, summer’s here and the whole of Helsinki seems to have abandoned work to sunbathe in the park (you can almost hear the economy grinding to a halt). We thought it …
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