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December 10, 2009… science for 30 years.
Harri Holopainen
Harri is a serial entrepreneur and an engineer. His background is in software engineering. He is fascinated how new technologies shape our daily lives, and why the greatest innovations tend to become invisible. In his spare time Harri does woodworking and enjoys the occasional good cigar. Harri is the Managing Director of Microtask.
Ida Hakola
Ida is looking at the web world from the content point of view. Her past …
Picture this: introducing the Descriptive Camera
May 16, 2012… a picture is in fact worth about 150 words).
So how does it work? Advanced pattern-recognition software? Quantum Entanglement? A tiny prehistoric bird? The answer, as regular readers of this blog will probably have guessed, is crowdsourcing. The Descriptive Camera uploads images to Mechanical Turk, where users are paid a small fee for providing a brief text description. Thanks to the popularity of Mechanical Turk, and the relatively high price per task of $1.25, Richardson says that it …
Power from the people: crowdsourcing the constitution
April 18, 2012… eligible voters. Aiming to help Finns make the most of the Act, a group of volunteer activists, software engineers and researchers created the Avoin Ministeriö (Open Ministry). There, voters can present their ideas to the crowd, offer support for policy initiatives which catch their eye and join in debates.
While the US has dipped a toe into the warm, radiant waters of crowdsourcing, Finland has plunged straight in. Unlike the We The People programme’s arms-length approach, the …
Free from the chains: how crowdfunding is changing game development
April 11, 2012… –
both known mostly for their work on the Monkey Island series – is a well established software house with a bunch of good minor games covering various genres.
Despite Schafer’s more recent work, people stubbornly kept asking him to go back to the genre in which he excels: point-and-click adventure games. The problem is that these games are on the blacklist of traditional publishers: they’re slow-paced, old fashioned and usually don’t feature enough guns or explosions to be …
When stupid beats smart: the power of collective ignorance
March 21, 2012… to be able to read. The more specialized work of compiling the work of crowd members is left to software designed by experts, just as Herzog and Hertwig’s ignorant crowd were able to make accurate predictions thanks to the expert organizational and analytic skills of the researchers.
The combination of a crowd and a well-designed framework for them to operate in is when the magic of crowd labor really occurs. Like Voltron, we’re more powerful when we join together, but someone …
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