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Google+, Twitter, Facebook: the new capitals of crowdsourcing?
August 16, 2011… seems like a truly innovative feature and could be what distinguishes G+ from rivals Facebook and Twitter.
Spheres of influence
G+ circles allow users to divide contacts into separate “watertight” compartments. Google combines the idea of sharing with friends (as in Facebook lists) with the possibility of gaining followers (see Twitter). Of course, it can get a bit tricky when selecting who sees what but that’s easily fixed with a bit of careful contact sorting (or, failing that, …
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crowd, crowdsourcing, dilbert, Facebook, google, microtask, microwork, Online Communities, Social network, Twitter, Ville Miettinen | Leave a commentTwitter Predictions: the future is just 140 characters away
August 1, 2011Share 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 Forest Gump) Twitter’s …
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business, crowd, crowdsourcing, distributed work, Hedge fund, HP Labs, Indiana University, Lady Gaga, microwork, Pope, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Leave a commentCrime-sourcing: the dark side of the crowd
October 20, 2011… not their choice of “reward”.
The sheer range of crime-sourcing plots is jaw-dropping: from Twitter organized flash robs to shady Mafia-type gangs who recruit virtual mules to launder money and receive stolen goods. Then there are cyber-crimes where the crowd actively participates, like the notorious LulzSec group’s “hacking hotline” which got people to vote on who the group’s next hacking victim should be (must have caused Sarah Palin some serious DDoS problems). …
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captcha, Computer crime, crowd, crowdsourcing, Denial-of-service attack, microwork, Misha Glenny, Nigeria, Sarah Palin, Twitter, Yahoo! Mail | Leave a commentDeath 2.0: Crowdsourcing the rest of your (after)life
September 22, 2011Share 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 scorching Italian sun (it’s a tough …
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Adam Ostrow, crowd, crowdsourcing, Isaac Asimov, Matrix, microwork, social media, TechCrunch, TED.com, Twitter, William Gibson | Leave a commentFixMyTransport: keep calm and carry on crowdsourcing
September 19, 2011… Myfanwy Nixon, explains she always knew demand would be high: “You only have to dip into Twitter during rush hour and search for any of the major transport operators’ names to see a vast outpouring of discontent – we knew that could be channeled more constructively.
Can we fix it? Er, maybe we can
I love a good rant as much as anyone and FixMyTransport is clearly providing much-needed therapy to traumatized commuters. However, the real test will be whether the site actually …
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