Tag Archives: Plan International
Better shred than read: DARPA uses competitive crowdsourcing to revive destroyed documents
January 12, 2012… As if things weren’t already hard enough for them, crooked bankers , deposed dictators and international super villains have one more thing to worry about. Having spent their last hours of freedom shredding incriminating evidence into neat strips, they might have thought they could get away with their misdeeds. It turns out however that those shredded documents might not be as unreadable as they thought.
Our old friends at DARPA (or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency if …
Hatforce: your friendly crowd of hackers
November 17, 2011… online hazard – like trolls, 404 pages and inappropriate Nazi analogies.
Take the international “hactivism” group Anonymous (these guys are like WikiLeaks’ crazy kid brother). Back in April, Anonymous successfully obtained the credit card numbers of over 70 million Playstation users, exposing major security flaws at Sony. Just a few days ago, the same thing happened to gaming distribution platform Steam. Details are still emerging but Gabe Newell, Steam …
And the crowdsourcing award goes to…
September 8, 2011… help is near.
This September, crowdsourcing news site The Daily Crowdsource has launched the International Crowdsourcing Excellence (ICE) Awards. As Daily Crowdsource CEO David Bratvold explains: “The crowdsourcing field has begun to attract top talent. The ICE Awards will uncover that talent and Daily Crowdsource is looking forward to honoring these leaders”. So basically it’s like the Oscars, only geekier and without the embarrassing outfits.
Standing out from the crowd …
Life, liberty and the pursuit of crowdsourcing: Iceland’s constitutional saga
August 29, 2011… efforts have certainly wowed the blogosphere. The project’s Facebook wall is covered with international messages of support (plus a few Icelanders attempting actual political debate). It seems people everywhere love a bit of crowdsourced democracy. Iceland is the first country to achieve constitutional reform via crowdsourcing. I suspect it won’t be the last.
crowd, crowdsourcing, Facebook, Iceland, Icelanders, Jedi, microwork, Open government, Reykjavík, youtube | 1 CommentTwitter Predictions: the future is just 140 characters away
August 1, 2011… our collective tweets contain valuable information: what movies are popular, who we plan to vote for, how a whole nation feels. Believe it or not there’s growing evidence that if you ask the right questions, Twitter can even predict the future.
Movies, moods and markets
A 2010 study by HP Labs demonstrated that the “tweet-rate” of pre-released movies can accurately predict future ticket sales. Basically, the more mentions a movie gets on Twitter (positive or …
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