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Bribes and Prejudice: India’s crowdsourcing revolution

Posted on by Ville Miettinen

Share If there’s one thing that unites people the world over, it’s complaining about politicians. Whether you’re black or white, old or young, right or left there’s nothing quite as human as having a good moan about the people in charge.

At Microtask we pride ourselves on upholding this ignoble tradition with our “constructive criticism” of state-run crowdsourcing …

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Smartsheet: the deadliest app in town?

Posted on by Ville Miettinen

Share The “killer app” is the dream of every rookie software designer. A program that’s so brilliant, so niche-bustingly successful, it spawns a whole new industry.

When people talk about the history of personal computing the spotlight tends to focus on advances in hardware. But while shiny new technology is always impressive, it’s software that’s made PCs popular, …

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