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Manufacturing success: how to use crowdsourcing to enhance innovation and product development
March 7, 2012 Share Since the global financial crisis, rich countries have increasingly come to see manufacturing as a reliable driver of growth. Globalization, of course, means that it is more difficult than ever for rich countries to compete with developing countries in this sector of the economy.
In this environment, crowdsourcing is increasingly recognized as a good way to enhance …
Duolingo Beta put to the test: can you learn a language while translating the web?
February 29, 2012 Share A while ago, while trying to avoid some work, I watched this TED presentation by Luis von Ahn .
While his name might not ring a bell for everyone, his legacy definitely will: he is the guy behind reCAPTCHA , the bot-blocking service that uses all of us to help digitize the archives of The New York Times and Google Books. (Just think: every time you have to squint …
Space Peas and Holy Toast: Why Pattern Recognition is Humanity’s Killer App
February 15, 2012 Share People are strange. We look for faces and animals in clouds, we spot Michael Jackson in a greasy roasting dish, and we pay tens of thousands of dollars for pieces of toast that resemble the Virgin Mary (personally, I think it looks more like Michael Jackson, but I admit that I am not a qualified toast inspector).
This compulsion to find meaningful images in random …
The land that time forgot: How crowdsourcing can help bring Cuba into the 21st Century
February 6, 2012 Share With its beautiful crumbling buildings and vintage motor cars, spicy culture and rich history, few countries excite the imagination like Cuba.
Over the Christmas break I visited this tiny island that occupies such a large place in world culture and history. Explaining the country of Castro is probably impossible, but triumphant Socialism or the white sandy beaches of …
From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012Share Every country in the world has probably benefited in some way from the unprecedented access to knowledge and services brought about by the digital revolution. But producing the knowledge banks and services has so far been a predominately rich-country business. The world’s poorest countries have generally not been able to participate in the production side of the digital …
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