Tag Archives: MMO
Crimes 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 …
Social networking and the English riots: don’t shoot the (Blackberry) messenger
August 12, 2011 Share
Looting, arson, armored police and outraged citizens: London is at boiling point, with other English cities feeling the heat too. Here in law-abiding Helsinki, the closest we get to this type of lawlessness is an unauthorized barbecue in the park. By comparison, the UK capital is descending into Arab-Spring-like chaos. Except, of course, that Londoners are not fighting …
Crowdconvention 2011: a designer’s tale
June 27, 2011Share To most people, summer equals sunshine, holidays and over-budgeted action movies . But to the crowdsourcing industry, summer means one thing only: convention season is finally here. As Microtask’s senior designer I spend most of the year stuck at a desk doing “vital creative work” like planning smart UIs, animating company videos and occasionally exploring …
Amazon Mechanical Turk, Berlin, crowd, Crowdflower, crowdsourcing, Harri Holopainen, jeff howe, microtask, microwork, Ville Miettinen | 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. …
Agriculture, Cambridgeshire, crowd, crowdsourcing, distributed work, Facebook, Farmer, Farmville, microwork, san francisco | Leave a commentCrowdsourcing global development: working theories
May 18, 2011 Share What do Madonna, the Chinese Government and crowdsourcing all have in common? Answer: a complex and sometimes controversial relationship with the developing world.
Take the much quoted statistic that 33% of workers on Mechanical Turk are located in India. It sounds impressive, right? Thousands of people in a developing country using Mechanical Turk to earn some much …
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