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MOG: the day the music gamified
October 6, 2011… are the only ones who make a decent living from the industry anymore.
The recent Spotify-Facebook deal has pumped up the volume of online debate. Since the “deep integration” of the two companies was announced, Spotify has gained 1 million users and, simultaneously, managed to enrage the entire blogosphere. As a Facebook user, I’ve noticed a sudden avalanche of friends’ Spotify spam (guys I love you, but if you’re listening to Enya, stay off my wall!).
While record …
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crowd, crowdsourcing, David Hyman, Enya, Facebook, Free music, Grooveshark, microwork, MOG, Rdio, Spotify | Leave a commentHS Talkoot: Microtask to the rescue of Finnish media history
September 5, 2011… how we run things. HS Talkoot is structured as an online game. Once you’ve logged in using your Facebook account or email address, you can challenge friends and other players for the highest score in a game against time. Along with a fun game involving the construction of life-saving bridges, it’s your chance to achieve eternal glory, top placement in the charts and the satisfaction of preserving Finnish media history.
HS Talkoot will be open until the end of October. Each week the best …
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Aamulehti, crowd, crowdsourcing, Facebook, Finland, Finnish language, Helsingin Sanomat, microwork, National Library of Finland, Optical character recognition, Päivälehti | Leave a commentLife, liberty and the pursuit of crowdsourcing: Iceland’s constitutional saga
August 29, 2011… pioneering crowdsourcing efforts have certainly wowed the blogosphere. The project’s Facebook wall is covered with international messages of support (plus a few Icelanders attempting actual political debate). It seems people everywhere love a bit of crowdsourced democracy. Iceland is the first country to achieve constitutional reform via crowdsourcing. I suspect it won’t be the last.
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crowd, crowdsourcing, Facebook, Iceland, Icelanders, Jedi, microwork, Open government, Reykjavík, youtube | 1 CommentCrimes against content: is crowdsourcing to hamsters a bridge too far?
August 18, 2011… material that search engines think is legit. Maybe one day, Google will stop trying to be the new Facebook and work out how to block this stuff. Meanwhile, I can reassure readers that future versions of Digitalkoot will almost certainly not include any dragon claws, goblin villages or hamster sub-tasks. Oh, and if you’re reading this on a power-leveling site, please excuse the typos.
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Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, crowd, crowdsourcing, Facebook, Gamification, google, Hamster, microwork, mmog, National Library of Finland, RuneScape, Searching | Leave a commentDown on MyFarm: gamification goes rural
May 26, 2011Share Picture the pioneers of gamification. Trend-leaders, people who are prepared to really “get their hands dirty” promoting online engagement. Who do you see? A fast-talking baby-faced Princeton drop-out ? A well-groomed San Francisco game-developer ? A good old-fashioned geek’s geek ? Or how about a middle-aged English farmer ? Okay, the clue is in the title. …
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