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Crowdsourcing: an ancient Finnish tradition?
June 13, 2011 Share Crowdsourcing is generally considered to be a modern invention. Like many people, I first came across the term in Jeff Howe’s 2006 article The Rise of Crowdsourcing . I was impressed by Jeff’s ideas, but reading the article I began to think: “somehow this concept sounds very familiar”.
Then I realized why. Crowdsourcing is really just a new name for a very old …
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Android, apple, crowd, crowdsourcing, Disability, distributed work, iPhone, microtask, microwork, research, Speech recognition, United States | 2 CommentsToo cool to play: the gamification backlash
April 11, 2011… improve my social status).
Post-graduation, the world sometimes seems to work in reverse. Take Apple. In 2000, Mac was the hip, underrated indie-kid of computing. Now everyone’s got an iPhone and suddenly Apple is an evil corporate giant out to steal your money, digital rights and free will (if you believe the Guardian ).
People are instinctively suspicious of stuff that gets too big, too fast. Two years ago the term “gamification” barely existed, now it’s everywhere. There are …
A ticket to play
March 7, 2011… tourists cross 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 …
Smartsheet: the deadliest app in town?
January 20, 2011… and made money. In the 1980s, the business world only became interested in the cutting edge Apple II once killer app VisiCalc – the first graphical spreadsheet – came along. The internet was a tiny network, populated by a handful of nerdy academics, until web browsers, email and search engines got the world seriously online.
So, the million (or more likely several billion) dollar question is: what will be the killer app for crowd labor? The piece of software that makes tapping …
Open Source Life
October 11, 2010… College London said “ what he has done in genetic terms would be analogous to taking an Apple Mac program and making it work on a PC – and then saying you have created a computer.”
Whatever your view, there appears to be a level of consensus that the breakthrough is, at the very least, significant. Venter’s brilliance, according to Prof Jones, is “realizing that the genome was not a problem of chemistry but a problem of computer power. ” With such computer power – …
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