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December 4, 2009… of potential applications growing each day. Distributed work will greatly expand the traditional outsourcing market, and also make it more efficient, flexible and productive. This is because the basic unit of traditional outsourcing is a single employee, while Microtask’s basic unit is only a few seconds of a person’s time.
Microtask concentrates on high volumes of menial, repetitive and boring work. Our service platform automatically splits work assignments into tiny pieces and …
Picture this: introducing the Descriptive Camera
May 16, 2012… them useful in the future. The trigger happy amongst us now feel like we are drowning in a sea of digital photos.
Before you cast away your digital cameras and save yourselves (yes, I’m exaggerating the problem slightly), hope is here. It’s called the Descriptive Camera, and it intends to bring a whole new perspective to photography.
Say ‘Crowd!’
The brainchild of ‘creative technologist’ Matt Richardson, the prototype Descriptive Camera does exactly what the name suggests. …
Keep Watching the Iron Skies!
April 4, 2012… What do you see for the future of crowdsourced movies?
I think this is just the beginning of digital crowdsourcing. In the future I think online tools will become more effective and easier to use, and we will get better at motivating people to take part in productions.
As more and more distributed rendering projects come online, independent film makers will have access to almost unlimited processing power. To me the future looks great (if we can just survive the invasion from the moon …
Hey! You! Get off my crowd: is crowdsourcing becoming a meaningless buzzword?
February 20, 2012… The US Congress has unveiled a draft form of its new Online Protection & Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act, a more considered alternative to the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills. It was opened to the crowd for amendment, and the input of some 150 users resulted in six alterations to the bill. This comes right after new research revealed that crowdsourced businesses may have an even brighter future than everyone (except us, of course) predicted.
Away from the sideshow of …
The land that time forgot: How crowdsourcing can help bring Cuba into the 21st Century
February 6, 2012… a big part in this process.
Cuba has a high level of education, so transcriptions from paper to digital formats could be a bit of a waste of potential in this specific case. But when the choice is between doing that and hanging around your front door from dusk till dawn, the decision seems easy. The concepts of crowd labor and microwork are wide enough to appeal to people of all ages and educational backgrounds.
Although Cuba is a fascinating country to visit, actually living there …
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