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Microtask Backstage: our CEO Ville Miettinen featured on FounderLY
March 16, 2012… by FounderLY, a website dedicated to entrepreneurs who have founded potentially disruptive tech companies.
In these two videos, Ville gives in insight into how Microtask got to where it is today: the idea inception, its evolution, the early days, funding, the background of the Management Team, the learning process, mistakes and successes. If you want to know what happened behind the scenes, check them out!
Space Peas and Holy Toast: Why Pattern Recognition is Humanity’s Killer App
February 15, 2012… recent success at the Red Herring awards, puts pattern recognition at the frontier of the tech industry. I’ve written in the past about the limits of artificial intelligence and the ongoing war between human and machine translators (spoiler alert: humans are still winning, but only just). This, along with the success of Digitalkoot in correcting machine recognition errors, shows just how far computerized pattern recognition has to go before it can rival the average human …
Arizona State University, crowd, crowdsourcing, microwork, Mitt Romney, Newt, Newt Gingrich, Paul Davies, Robert Wagner, Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, White House | 1 Comment2011: the year the future became history?
December 24, 2011… turmoil in the EU and US, to the more positive chaos in the Middle East.
Amidst the booming tech industry, we at Microtask have often felt insulated from this turbulence. But mostly, we have felt like we were right there, in the thick of it: 2011 was the year that the power of the online crowd shook the world (almost a year after we had discussed how crowdsourcing and information sharing platforms were being used to promote democratic change in Tunisia and Egypt).
Just as …
Flop Idol: another crowdsourcing contest site gets Minted
December 5, 2011… eyebrows, then you’re not alone. Whether such sites are just a passing fad, more indicative of a tech bubble than a new, sustainable business-model, only time will tell. Either way, I don’t think anyone at Minted will be weeping into their champagne this Christmas.
business, Christmas, crowd, crowdsourcing, Mariam Naficy, microwork, Minted, Naficy, PRWEB, Real Simple, san francisco | Leave a commentCrowded planet: desperately seeking sustainability
November 8, 2011Share According to the latest UN figures , there are now over 7 billion people living on planet earth. In response, the world’s media has exploded with dire predictions of famine, war and climate disaster (and some great info-graphics ). Of course, in Finland over-population is hardly a major problem (except for reindeer and right-wing politicians ). But we’re probably …
Africa, Asteroid, Bruce Willis, crowd, crowdsourcing, ESA, European Space Agency, foldit, Near-Earth object, Tenerife, Ushahidi | Leave a comment← Older posts Newer posts →
