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Is that a hard drive in your pocket?
May 12, 2010… problems that mean you won’t be able to pay for dinner, it’s better not to brag about how big your hard drive is. Yet, for those of us who were young and interested in computers in the 1980s – when a 20MB hard disk was more desirable than Demi Moore – this can be tricky: there is something awe inspiring about new data storage technology.
But even amongst those who claim they are not aroused by the smooth, sleek finish of a pocket sized 1.5TB hard disk, it seems many are excited …
Tags: big data crowdsourcing data management google IDC samasource The Economist
big data, crowdsourcing, data management, google, IDC, samasource, The Economist | 3 CommentsPicture this: introducing the Descriptive Camera
May 16, 2012… It’s now possible for anyone to bring the crowd into their project, whether it’s a towering data processing task or a quirky prototype like the Descriptive Camera.
This means that innovative thinkers like Matt Richardson are free to pursue unorthodox ideas and create unique crowd-based projects. But it also shows just how easy it’s becoming to incorporate the crowd into everyday life. As the Descriptive Camera shows, it’s entirely possible to fit a whole crowd in your pocket.
Welcome to the Open Ministry
May 2, 2012Share After casually revolutionizing the worlds of design, data-processing and translation, the crowd is now getting to work on the business of government. Iceland is preparing to implement a crowdsourced constitution, and this March the Finnish Parliament passed the Citizens’ Initiative Act. The Act allows any citizen to present a law to Parliament, providing they can get the support of 50,000 citizens.
Spotting the opportunity for a groundbreaking …
Cracking the code: The crowd vs the virus
April 25, 2012… Trojan-Spy.0485/Malware-Cryptor.Win32.Inject.gen.2 (or Stuxnet if you’re human). Experts at the big antivirus companies concluded that Stuxnet was probably created by the US or Israeli intelligence services, and was designed to cripple the Iranian nuclear program.
This blog will self destruct in ten seconds
Of course, the US and Israel responded with the traditional mantra of the intelligence community: deny all knowledge. The story seemed to go away. The idea of governments releasing …
Space Peas and Holy Toast: Why Pattern Recognition is Humanity’s Killer App
February 15, 2012… may be a bad idea if you take the threat of a robot uprising seriously), crowdsourced data processing projects are raising exciting questions about how powerful our pattern recognition powers become when we work together as a crowd.
All they were saying, was give Peas a chance
We’ve mentioned the Galaxy Zoo project before, and its ongoing mission to classify hundreds of thousands of images of galaxies with the help of a crowd of volunteers. But an unexpected discovery on …
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