Tag Archives: rule of law
Microtask Selected to Rule the Globe
November 21, 2011… 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.
The official word from Red Herring is this:
“Technology companies are becoming the bright spot in the economic outlook based on their increasing role within …
When knowledge is power
August 2, 2010… almost always bad men. ” Baron Acton (1834–1902)
For centuries great thinkers have warned of the grave threat that the state poses to individual liberty. Thankfully today, citizens of full democracies are protected by the rule of law, independent courts and free press. Great men and women are accountable to their electorates and kept honest (more or less).
Even in full democracies there are famous exceptions, such as Guantanamo Bay. Although this example is a clear breach of the …
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activism, China, crowdsourcing, Darfur, democracy, Google Maps, Guantanamo Bay, Internet, Neda Soltan, North Korea, rule of law, Simpsons, Twitter | 4 CommentsTesting Times
March 2, 2011… “app monopoly”, developers had it relatively easy. Okay, there was always the problem of getting stuff accepted into the app store, but apps only had to be designed for one interface, one handset, one puritanical CEO. iPhone apps still dominate world sales but now Android, Blackberry, Nokia and Microsoft are all focusing on smartphones. These days apps have to work on multiple phones and carriers, fighting for an edge in an increasingly crowded market.
Mob Rule?
At some …
Getting paid to party: what is the difference between work and play?
July 17, 2010… professional gamers make a living by competing in multiplayer games like StarCraft in front of television audiences of millions. Hundreds of thousands of virtual gold farmers in China, Vietnam and elsewhere are paid an hourly wage to harvest treasures in online games like EverQuest 2. And most recently, companies like CrowdFlower have started to hire gamers and online community members to carry out real chores like categorizing search engine results and verifying links. The catch: …
Adam Smith, Crowdflower, EverQuest, games, gold farmers, Karl Marx, StarCraft, virtual currency, work | 6 CommentsHow the knowledge economy will change the way we work
April 3, 2010… is increasing. This shift is producing a fundamental change in the basic architecture and rules of working life. Knowledge intensive work poses specific challenges for knowledge workers and the companies that employ them. In order for companies and their employees to develop and innovate, new knowledge supportive structures and a change in the way we think about work are both required.
In global business it is more of a rule than an exception that work is done outside predefined work …
