Tag Archives: 2.0
Science and the “Nobel” art of gaming
March 31, 2011 Share As regular readers will know, here at Microtask we love a bit of science fun. Back in November we blogged about Foldit , a freely-available online protein-folding game. Foldit players contribute directly to scientific discovery: the more proteins they fold, the closer scientists get to curing diseases like Alzheimer’s and AIDS.
Refusing to be out-innovated by mere …
Tags: AIDS biotic games Carnegie Mellon University crowd crowdsourcing fate of the world foldit Game Developers Conference Golden Gate Bridge interface microtask microwork Pac-Man san francisco Stanford University Twitter Video game Web 2.0 Summit widesourcing World
AIDS, biotic games, Carnegie Mellon University, crowd, crowdsourcing, fate of the world, foldit, Game Developers Conference, Golden Gate Bridge, interface, microtask, microwork, Pac-Man, san francisco, Stanford University, Twitter, Video game, Web 2.0 Summit, widesourcing, World | 2 CommentsA ticket to play
March 7, 2011… the Golden Gate Bridge to attend events: the Game Developers Conference, Apple Keynotes, the Web 2.0 Summit – there’s an expo for everyone.
In such a tech-friendly town, it’s not surprising that computing is spreading into public spaces, affecting the way citizens interact with their urban environment. The first stop? That most boring of public places: the bus stop.
Routed to the stop
In late 2010 large touch screens were installed in 20 bus stops across San Francisco (with a …
Tags: crowd crowdsourcing Game Developers Conference Golden Gate Bridge interface microwork san francisco Twitter Web 2.0 Summit widesourcing
crowd, crowdsourcing, Game Developers Conference, Golden Gate Bridge, interface, microwork, san francisco, Twitter, Web 2.0 Summit, widesourcing | Leave a commentLanguage Lessons: translating the global conversation
February 21, 2011… (except in Denmark, according to our Travelling Salesman ). However, the development of web 2.0, mobile internet and broadband mean people are spending more and more personal time online. And, as life gets uploaded, so do languages. Our friends at the social network Xiha Life have even added a “Translate button” to their site interface. Using machine translation, the button allows members (who come from over 200 countries) to switch between languages in real-time.
Facing the …
Flattery will get you everywhere
May 14, 2010 Share
The Swedes are interesting people, known for their tasty meatballs and thinking outside the box, even when thinking inside it . Just as they revolutionized furniture, tennis and ski-jumping , with The Pirate Bay (TPB) they changed our perception of copyright infringement forever.
Right to copy?
Before a few geeks in Stockholm brought us TPB, there were …
Tags: 2.0 content creation flattr P2P pirate bay reward sharing
2.0, content creation, flattr, P2P, pirate bay, reward, sharing | 3 CommentsNewer posts →
