Author Archives: Ville Miettinen
About Ville Miettinen
Wili is a serial entrepreneur and technologist. He’s been programming since the early 80′s, and has his made career in high-tech in the field of 3D computer graphics. Wili is a world traveller and a semi-professional photographer. Wili is the CEO of Microtask.Could crowd-driven think tanks be weapons of mass instruction?
March 14, 2012ShareWhat comes to mind when you hear the phrase ‘think tank’? A passionately engaged team of experts, using their knowledge to shape the social discourse? A bunch of overeducated technocrats with no experience of the real world, dictating our futures? A telepathically-operated war machine? Whatever your opinion, think tanks – or policy research units – [...]
crowd, crowdsourcing, Eric Schmidt, google, microtask, microwork, Neal Stephenson, San Martin California, Sergey Brin, TED, Think tank, youtube | Leave a commentHappily ever after: how bored workers and their bosses can benefit from crowdsourcing
February 23, 2012ShareWith its mysterious, often invisible army of workers diligently completing tasks and solving problems, it is understandable that the media sometimes treat crowdsourcing almost like a fairytale industry. Recently, however, our friends at CrowdControl have begun to tear down our carefully cultivated air of magic and mystery with new research on the demographics of digital [...]
business, crowd, crowdsourcing, Digital, employment, microtask, microwork, Napster, odesk, work | Leave a commentHey! You! Get off my crowd: is crowdsourcing becoming a meaningless buzzword?
February 20, 2012ShareOver the last few months, I have been spending more and more time in the US, doing my best to soak up the famous American culture (while rushing between meetings). Of course, regardless of what country you live in, one event which you cannot escape is the Super Bowl: that special time of year, when [...]
business, Clint Eastwood, crowd, crowdsourcing, Doritos, Kim Kardashian, Matthew Broderick, microwork, Super Bowl, United States | 2 CommentsSpace Peas and Holy Toast: Why Pattern Recognition is Humanity’s Killer App
February 15, 2012SharePeople are strange. We look for faces and animals in clouds, we spot Michael Jackson in a greasy roasting dish, and we pay tens of thousands of dollars for pieces of toast that resemble the Virgin Mary (personally, I think it looks more like Michael Jackson, but I admit that I am not a qualified [...]
Arizona State University, crowd, crowdsourcing, microwork, Mitt Romney, Newt, Newt Gingrich, Paul Davies, Robert Wagner, Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, White House | 1 CommentMy advice to Newt: use the crowd
February 9, 2012ShareEver since he exploded onto our screens as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters, it was clear (at least to 8 year olds like me) that Newt Gingrich would one day go places. True to my (utterly fictitious) predictions, if you read the news at the moment there is no escaping him and his good [...]
Arizona State University, crowd, crowdsourcing, microwork, Mitt Romney, Newt, Newt Gingrich, Paul Davies, Robert Wagner, Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, White House | 1 Comment← Older posts Newer posts →
