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Google+, Twitter, Facebook: the new capitals of crowdsourcing?
August 16, 2011… users to divide contacts into separate “watertight” compartments. Google combines the idea of sharing with friends (as in Facebook lists) with the possibility of gaining followers (see Twitter). Of course, it can get a bit tricky when selecting who sees what but that’s easily fixed with a bit of careful contact sorting (or, failing that, a groveling apology to your boss/ spouse/ mother-in-law). The result of all this social engineering is that G+ is potentially a very interesting new …
crowd, crowdsourcing, dilbert, Facebook, google, microtask, microwork, Online Communities, Social network, Twitter, Ville Miettinen | 1 Comment2011: a crowded year
May 4, 2011… it be gamification? Microwork? Quality concerns? Wages and legislation? If any of you feel like sharing any suggestions – conventional or unconventional – we are all ears.
Clickworker, crowd, Crowdflower, crowdsourcing, Gamification, jeff howe, lukas biewald, microtask, microwork, Otto Chrons, san francisco, Ville Miettinen | 1 CommentBringing anarchy to the creative process – When distributed work meets interesting web content
January 6, 2011Share
Tommaso: Ida, would you like to write a blog post for us, sharing your ideas on crowdsourcing?
Ida: Sure, sounds good! I already have a few thoughts…
Two weeks later. The first idea that pops into my head is a text written like a ninth grade “creative essay”. You know, the one where you write a few words, fold the paper and hand it to the next person who continues the story with words of his own. NO. This is clearly not the way to bring the …
2010: A year not lost on the crowd
December 26, 2010… and launched this blog. We now have 12 full-time staff at Microtask.
It was a year we spent sharing our vision, first as a finalist at the Nordic Tech Tour pitching competition, then presenting at CrowdConf and the Icelandic Gaming Industry (IGI) conference.
Happily, it seems other people were as excited about our ideas as we are: in August we announced the investment by the venture capital fund Sunstone Capital, and in October the New York Times shared our vision with the …
Shining a light on local government
October 28, 2010… is illuminated
Happily, such annoyances may soon be a thing of the past. New methods of sharing information and allocating tasks – such as crowdsourcing – mean that difficult or time consuming jobs can be broken into bite sized microtasks. Numerous organizations are now using such platforms, together with the internet, to facilitate user-friendly and effective interaction between citizens and their governments.
A good example is Fixmystreet, run by mySociety in the UK. Now …
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