Tag Archives: position
The business of business cards
June 14, 2010… The pieces of information I usually look for on a business card are the name of the person, their position, company, address, email, URL of the website and contact numbers. Once again, the creative flair of start-ups does not make the process any easier. Often they have email addresses unrelated to the company, no physical addresses, Skype contacts instead of a normal phone number, and unusual position descriptions (“Cultural Attaché”, “Under Secretary of Art & Design”, “Light …
business, cards, contacts, crowdsourcing, filing, microtask | 5 CommentsAre the Golden Years history?
March 23, 2010… with no one to support them.
When it comes to an aging population, Italy is an even worse position than the US and most other countries. After Japan, it is the “oldest” country in the world. Even today the country is struggling to balance its books. Because of a declining birth-rate, in the near future – regardless of whether life expectancy sky-rockets – a declining number of tax payers will be increasingly unable to support the numbers of retirees drawing a pension, at least …
A Ray of Sunshine
February 6, 2010… in an information system ( Ushahidi ) which ultimately gets to the major NGOs and aid workers in a position to help directly. NGOs like Oxfam, the Clinton Foundation, Plan International, and American Red Cross are this minute benefiting from Ushahidi data in the field in Haiti.
At a relative’s work last week, they organized a bake sale – which is a somewhat more traditional way to help those in need in Haiti (and from which I again benefit indirectly). This is all well and …
We, Robot: A Vision of What’s to Come
December 18, 2009… of crowdsourcing. Through tools such as the Mechanical Turk, people all over the world are in a position to help the scientists with the rather massive task of sifting through and sorting raw image data. People can assist researchers for instance by labeling objects, or drawing around the outlines of pertinent information.
This kind of crowd assistance can help researchers to develop software that allows computers/robots to process visual information more quickly and efficiently. The …
