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Hey! You! Get off my crowd: is crowdsourcing becoming a meaningless buzzword?
February 20, 2012… 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 the world comes together to ignore America’s favorite sport. This year we in the crowdsourcing industry were forced to pay attention (but, mercifully, not to the game itself): amongst the usual 60 minutes of …
The land that time forgot: How crowdsourcing can help bring Cuba into the 21st Century
February 6, 2012… forgotten. In the whole island I couldn’t find evidence of a single database where data could be cross-referenced. For a tourist, this means that you don’t know if the bus coming in 2 hours will have a free seat: you just wait and see. For Cubans, it probably means a life of unnecessary grind against an unfriendly and highly inefficient bureaucracy.
Hasta la crowd-victoria
Add these observations to the incredibly high unemployment rate among all age groups, I came to two …
Crowdsourcing democracy: was the Arab Spring over-hyped?
October 26, 2011… to get Arab support. An election monitoring platform – developed for Egypt at the request of the American University in Cairo – had to be completely re-written by local project assistant Michael Ayoub. “The programmers from Stanford wanted to use a new programming language for writing the site. They wanted to learn this programming language, but it wasn’t very useful over here” says Ayoub. He tried to communicate this with the Stanford developers, but felt that his needs were …
Arab Spring, Cairo, Coptic Christian, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, crowd, crowdsourcing, Egypt, microwork, Morocco, Tahrir Square, The Guardian | 1 CommentCrimes against content: is crowdsourcing to hamsters a bridge too far?
August 18, 2011 Share They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In today’s world I’m not so sure.
My doubts began when I came across this article on a Chinese power-leveling site for popular MMOG RuneScape . The writer (or more likely the algorithm) has taken an original article about Microtask, sliced it up and loaded it with terms (“seers village”, “Port …
Twitter Predictions: the future is just 140 characters away
August 1, 2011… predict election outcomes in the UK and US, and (here’s the really crucial example) X-Factor and American Idol winners.
In a more sophisticated Twitter experiment, Dr Johan Bollen of Indiana University used mood-profiling software to analyze the actual content (rather than just the volume) of millions of tweets. He found that the “Twitter mood” of America closely corresponded to national events. On Thanksgiving tweeters were unusually happy, just before the presidential election, …
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