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From fiction to fact: interview with Esa Nikkilä
September 29, 2011Share Once upon a time (summer 2010) in a not-very-faraway land (Tampere), a band of crowdsourcing pioneers began an epic mission. Their aim: to create the world’s first ever crowdsourced novel . Four months, 500 authors and 2500 tweets later, the 140story project was complete. The novel, Todellisuudesta Toiseen (From Reality to Another), has now been crowd-translated …
business, Business Services, crowd, crowdsourcing, George Orwell, Imogen Heap, microtask, microwork, Otto Maja, Talkoot | 3 CommentsAnd the crowdsourcing award goes to…
September 8, 2011… the coming year, three other forms of crowdsourcing will get their own ICE awards: macrotasks, microtasks and crowdfunding. No prizes for guessing which category we’ll be fighting for…
Arts, business, crowd, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, Dell, Literature, microwork, Mobile phone, Small business | Leave a commentHS Talkoot: Microtask to the rescue of Finnish media history
September 5, 2011… 75,000 volunteers over eight months. Overall, 240,000 minutes of non-stop typing (or 5 million microtasks) have been donated for the digitization of old issues of Aamulehti, a popular Finnish newspaper.
Aamulehti, crowd, crowdsourcing, Facebook, Finland, Finnish language, Helsingin Sanomat, microwork, National Library of Finland, Optical character recognition, Päivälehti | Leave a commentCrimes against content: is crowdsourcing to hamsters a bridge too far?
August 18, 2011 Share They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In today’s world I’m not so sure.
My doubts began when I came across this article on a Chinese power-leveling site for popular MMOG RuneScape . The writer (or more likely the algorithm) has taken an original article about Microtask, sliced it up and loaded it with terms (“seers village”, “Port …
From January to June: six months of micro (and macro) work
July 6, 2011… digitization project) has surprised even us: so far, over 60,000 people have completed 4,661,832 microtasks of mole-based fun. In May, we announced Microtask Forms – a crowdsourced service to “digitize and destroy” unwieldy paper forms (check out the free trial ). To top it all, we’re also the proud winners of a Red Herring Europe TOP 100 award – apparently this makes us one of “ the most innovative and promising startups in Europe ” (oh stop it, we’re blushing!). …
BBC, Bruce Sterling, business, crowd, crowdsourcing, Helsinki, microwork, new york times, Ville Miettinen | Leave a comment← Older posts Newer posts →
