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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 …
BBC, Bruce Sterling, business, crowd, crowdsourcing, Helsinki, microwork, new york times, Ville Miettinen | Leave a commentWhy making the crowd smart is a no-brainer
May 6, 2010… the exercises people perform to give their gray matter a work-out are very close to the kind of micro tasks crowdsourcing platforms could use to help other industries redistribute their workloads. Among others, Brain Training exercises include calculations, quick reading, counting syllables and keeping track of elements on screen: all operations easily transferable to other fields.
As I discussed in another recent post, masking work snippets as mini-games could lead to radically …
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brain, integrate, micro, nintendo, research, Ryuta Kawashima, tasks, training | 3 CommentsTwitter Predictions: the future is just 140 characters away
August 1, 2011… instinct is to suggest crowdsourcing as a solution, but even I have to admit that using micro-workers to analyze millions of tweets per day is (just a little) impractical. But the crowd could still play a role: microworkers could provide deeper analysis of key groups of tweets or double-check machine accuracy by re-analyzing random tweet samples. Plus crowd-generated feedback could be used to train and improve language-processing software.
With a little imagination, the …
For a fistful of dollars: the weird and wonderful world of Fiverr
June 6, 2011… community of users who offer to perform specific tasks (or “gigs”) for just $5. Some of these micro-services are straightforward: send in a portrait for a Photoshop makeover (guaranteed to reverse all 7 signs of aging); get some much-needed Likes for a barren Facebook page about hamsters. Other users are a bit more creative (though I do worry a little about this user’s diet).
Here at Microtask we’re always eager to give the crowd a chance. Armed with $50, we decided to find out …
Distributed work and data security: can the crowd keep a secret?
May 23, 2011… and more complex. Some clients have data requiring different levels of confidentiality. Leaving micro tasks aside, the most economic solution for such clients will be platforms that can categorize data according to sensitivity and treat it accordingly. For example, tasks rated highly classified (X-tasks perhaps) could be restricted to pre-selected, traceable workers who have signed legally binding non-disclosure agreements. Really ultra-confidential tasks (like transcribing the CIA’s …
Amazon Mechanical Turk, CastingWords, crowd, Crowdflower, crowdsourcing, distributed work, Julian Assange, microtask, microwork, Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems, Wikileaks | Leave a comment← Older posts
