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From January to June: six months of micro (and macro) work
July 6, 2011… Contagious, the BBC and Monocle to mention the most prestigious publications. Back on home ground, our blog continues to attract thousands of unique visitors (mainly from Finland, US and UK) with daily traffic doubling over the last year. Good news for guest bloggers Jani Penttinen, David Bratvold and Ida Hakola (got a burning crowdsourcing issue to discuss? Get in touch! ) The icing on the cake is our collaboration with leading industry site The Daily Crowdsource : …
BBC, Bruce Sterling, business, crowd, crowdsourcing, Helsinki, microwork, new york times, Ville Miettinen | Leave a commentCrowdsourcing Forums, a Daily appointment
June 1, 2011… Since The Daily Crowdsource launched last summer, it has quickly evolved to become the home for crowdsourcing news and information: a comprehensive site for news, crowdsourcing tools, and internationally renowned Crowd Leaders. The Daily Crowdsource continues its mission to expand the knowledge of crowdsourcing by launching the first publicly available crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and open innovation forums.
They are the first of their kind to be focused exclusively on …
Microtask: we love the forms you hate
May 11, 2011Share Paper forms are the bane of the modern workplace. They clutter-up our wireless, iPad-glass-and-steel offices like ghosts of the pre-digital past. As well as ruining the décor, forms are a terrible way to store data (just try “quick sorting” a full filing cabinet). Humankind has sent robots to Mars, mapped the human genome and even (in just 11 years) tracked down …
crowd, crowdsourcing, digitizing, Filing cabinet, human, iPad, iPhone, Mars, Microsoft Excel, microtask forms, microwork, Osama Bin Laden, paper forms, Paperless office, structured data | 1 CommentCrowdsourcing vs privacy: do we know too much?
April 18, 2011 Share Back in the 1950s, the U.S. writer Louis Kronenberger famously complained that TV had “given privacy its death blow.” .
The pronouncement turned out to be a little premature. It’s hard to imagine what Kronenberger would have said about the rise of the internet (possibly that the web was doing something very nasty to privacy’s corpse).
60 years on, the battle …
Speaking in tongues: how the crowd is transforming translation
April 12, 2011… per hour for a professional translator.
The second change is cost. With translators working from home via the internet, overheads plunge. This makes it cheaper of course, but also means you can translate short pieces of text, or even single words. Short sentences introduce a problem with potential ambiguity when the translator is not familiar with the product, but all the translator networks allow you to submit additional instructions that help the translator understand what it is that you …
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