Tag Archives: gold farming
Testing Times
March 2, 2011… buzz around new apps. Mob4Hire is also pushing its Mobstar rating, as a kind of crowd tested, gold standard guarantee of app quality (is it just me, or does “Mobstar” sound like an app award sponsored by Tony Soprano?).
This is not to say that such testing services are infallible, even with the mob behind them. Like with any creative product, there will always be an element of unpredictability in how the market receives an app, even after crowd testing. Just as some books and films …
Crowdsourcing crime part II: the net has eyes
January 14, 2011… games? A stint watching camera feeds could become an optional level in online games, with virtual gold, points or level rewards.
The crowd is watching
The idea of a huge crowd of online informants, ruthlessly alerting the police to any hint of suspicious behavior isn’t exactly comforting ( this is a neat of satire on the whole idea of getting rewards for ratting people out). But the sheer number of apps and sites show there’s a genuine desire from the crowd to get involved in crime …
The business of business cards
June 14, 2010 Share
I work with a busy group of people. Developing the Microtask platform is challenging work, on top of which are funding and staff issues. Every day we are out meeting partners, potential clients, VCs, lawyers, advisors and government MIB.
Big events like SXSW in Austin or the HTIA Conference in Jerusalem are a great opportunity to meet a wide variety of organizations …
Play the game of life
April 21, 2010Share
For our ancestors, farming and violence were a big part of life. In order to survive, the only thing more important than finding dinner was avoiding becoming someone else’s. Happily today, life is much easier. Despite what the media says, society is considerably safer than ever before. And at least in rich countries, only a tiny fraction of the population is needed to toil in the fields to produce our food. …
Africa Online
January 7, 2010… for employment in ten years time. Expecting an economy currently heavily reliant on subsistence farming to provide these jobs is unrealistic. It sees technology as a solution to this problem.
Though landlocked, Rwanda is fortunate to be geographically located next to Kenya, and its new undersea cable connection to the world. A fiber optic ring is in the process of being laid in Rwanda, which will connect to the Kenyan cable. In the capital, Kigali, antennae will utilize WiMax technology …
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