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Distributed work and data security: can the crowd keep a secret?
May 23, 2011… and more complex. Some clients have data requiring different levels of confidentiality. Leaving micro tasks aside, the most economic solution for such clients will be platforms that can categorize data according to sensitivity and treat it accordingly. For example, tasks rated highly classified (X-tasks perhaps) could be restricted to pre-selected, traceable workers who have signed legally binding non-disclosure agreements. Really ultra-confidential tasks (like transcribing the CIA’s …
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December 21, 2010… ecosystem will grow and flourish.
From our T-shirt design competition with 99 designs, to micro-work experiments on other crowdsourcing platforms, to my own modest efforts to crowd fund an editorial project : when it comes to getting involved in the CS community, Microtask has been there, done it and, quite literally, got the T-shirt.
Evaluating our experience I’m happy to report that, most of the time, crowdsourcing stuff really does work. Crucially though, both company and …
How many microtasks does it take to change the world?
November 1, 2010… Haiti is an Internet connection and a mobile phone.
And then there’s the growing phenomenon of micro volunteering. Like the Sparked (formerly the Extraordinaries) network, micro volunteering organizations take projects from non-profit organizations and divide the work into (you’ve guessed it) microtasks, which are distributed to a crowd of skilled volunteers. Projects range from the global mapping of defibrillator locations, to helping improve the website of a domestic violence …
A penny for your thoughts: Why crowdfunding is taking off
September 2, 2010 Share
Ever since our ancestors scratched each other’s hairy backs, humans have seen the benefit of lending a helping hand. With the rise of corporations, charities and stock exchanges, this assistance has become more complex, but in many respects it still relies on the same basic principles.
At Microtask we just closed a successful funding round , which got us thinking …
When worlds collide
April 12, 2010… with users able to control high-level inter-planetary space warfare but also scale down to the micro-level of an individual guerrilla soldier on a strategically important planet.
To control this varied action CCP developed the role of commander in chief: “He’s above the action,” explains the creative director Atli Már Sveinsson, “but he still has the ability to go into a voyeur mode and zoom down to see his installations in full 3D. It may sound removed, but as commander you …
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