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Hatforce: your friendly crowd of hackers
November 17, 2011… cyber-villains out to steal and defraud, or virtual heroes fearlessly battling the security systems of evil corporations ? Love them or hate them, hackers have always been around. They’re an inevitable online hazard – like trolls, 404 pages and inappropriate Nazi analogies.
Take the international “hactivism” group Anonymous (these guys are like WikiLeaks’ crazy kid brother). Back in April, Anonymous successfully obtained the credit card numbers of over 70 million …
Gaming the system: how rewards affect performance
April 28, 2011… multiplayer, you get the added buzz of annihilating friends and family).
While such reward systems seem straightforward, the rationale behind them can be incredibly complicated. Should rewards be physical or emotional? Intrinsic or extrinsic? Predictable level-ups or unpredictable Easter eggs? With the rapid spread of gamification into business, developing reward systems that entice people to play is becoming an important industry.
It’s not about the money
Common sense (and free …
Too cool to play: the gamification backlash
April 11, 2011… are hugely complex, multi-layered virtual realities. Gamified apps are often just primitive reward-systems with flashing scores and badges. But what if designers stopped sniping from the sidelines and instead helped to “level-up” gamification?
In a recent Google Tech Talk designer and self-confessed “grumpy German scholar” Sebastian Deterding outlines how he believes companies could “gamify better”. His presentation really stands out from the general gamification hype/hate. …
A ticket to play
March 7, 2011… the environment”.
In San Francisco, “gamifiers” are limited by the city’s established systems and infrastructure. Jätkäsaari is a clean slate – an opportunity for some real blue-sky thinking. Through Digitalkoot, Microtask has already shown how the gamification of crowdsourcing and microwork can be used to save precious text archives. Why not go further? You could potentially turn almost anywhere into an interactive space: bus stops, train stations, airports – all the …
Crowds against the Machine: will digital workers soon be digitized?
November 18, 2010… with cutting edge A.I. –designing Google Street View, they used sophisticated computer vision systems called ConvNets to blot out faces and license plates. ConvNets are capable of “deep learning”– they modify their own parameters when fed new information (something many football fans seem to struggle with).
An artificial struggle
The sophistication of this technology is awesome, but is it good news for the crowdsourcing industry? Without ConvNets, wouldn’t tagging …
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