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Crowdconvention 2011: a designer’s tale
June 27, 2011… (held June 15th in Berlin) was a fantastic and rare chance to meet other designers, size-up the competition and generally mingle with the cream of Europe’s crowdsourcing crop.
Conventional wisdom
The atmosphere at this year’s Crowdconvention – proudly co-sponsored by Microtask – was open and friendly. Companies were surprisingly willing to share information on topics ranging from worker-accuracy and ethical concerns, to privacy and security issues. The Microtask delegation was …
War Games (or how the US military learned to love the crowd)
April 26, 2011… crowdsourcing party. The agency only launched its first crowd-based experiment in 2009 – an open competition to test whether online social networks could be used to gather precise data. DARPA released 10 red weather balloons at secret locations across the U.S. The first team to pinpoint the coordinates of all of them was offered a $40,000 prize. Using Facebook, Twitter, public radio and good old-fashioned bribery, the winning team tracked down every balloon in an impressive 9 hours. …
ACTUV, Anti-submarine warfare, crowd, crowdsourcing, Dangerous Waters, DARPA, microwork, NASA, Philip K Dick, Submarine, United States | 2 CommentsRead all about it! Crowd makes the news
March 10, 2011… content can be pretty tough. Reporters, freelancers, bloggers and tweeters are all in fierce competition for readers. Depending on how good the next 473 words turn out to be, things might be about to get even more crowded.
Amazon Mechanical Turk, AOL, Arianna Huffington, Carnegie Mellon University, Charlie Sheen, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, Demand Media, distributed work, Huffington Post, Journalism, microwork | Leave a commentThe Travelling Salesman is back – Part 2
January 24, 2011… Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship our Travelling Salesman had the chance to attend a pitching competition: “It seemed like the whole building was crowded with startups. However, unlike in Finland where people speak in English, everything was in Danish: presentation, pitches, even simple chitchat. VCs were 100% Danish – everybody was tall, blonde and in a good shape – apart from us there were no foreigners in sight. Even so, I didn’t really understand why it wasn’t in English, …
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, nordic countries, Norway, salesman, Sweden, tech startups, travelling, trip | 5 Comments2010: A year not lost on the crowd
December 26, 2010… It was a year we spent sharing our vision, first as a finalist at the Nordic Tech Tour pitching competition, then presenting at CrowdConf and the Icelandic Gaming Industry (IGI) conference.
Happily, it seems other people were as excited about our ideas as we are: in August we announced the investment by the venture capital fund Sunstone Capital, and in October the New York Times shared our vision with the world. Most important of all, we even found time to put our name on a …
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