Posted in Social Software, Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
One of the interesting features of technologies is how it can bring people close together, in real life as well as in perception. Google has an interesting new feature called Google Latitude. Through this service you can show your location to your friends and of course see the location that your friends are sharing with [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing on Nov 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
I came across this post from David Cohn about crowdsourcing beat journalism. Local journalist of course normally have their network within the area they publish about. But how much more interesting might this become if you know how to make this network much more involved in the news and each other. The same, in a [...]
Posted in businessmodel, paticipation, Social Software on Jul 9th, 2007 6 Comments »
They made it! The group of people from AssignmentZero I blogged about some time ago have their articles published on Wired. Though it is easy to see that it has been a mixed blessing in results it is also easy to see the enthusiasm people have in doing this. One of the conclusion they have [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing on Jun 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Imagine: the oldest book in the world (I think?) being digitized through crowdsourcing. in 1637 in the Netherlands 22 man have translated the bible from the original texts to normal Dutch (they took 20 years for this). This was quite remarkable at the time since it was not normal to translate religious texts into a [...]
Posted in social networks on Jun 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Open Source, Wikipedia and others attract lots of people who spent lots of time in adding information and improvements. All for zilch, noppes, nada. At least financial terms… Some think this is the way of the future. All new paradigms first attract the idealistic people. In the first days of the Internet commerce was simply not done. Flame [...]
Posted in workspace on May 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Many will recognize this as the opening of Dickens his book “A tale of two cities”. Dickens meant the time of the french revolution with all the positive and negative turmoil. Looking how fast the landscape of work is changing I sometimes get the [...]
Posted in Social Software on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the most interesting developments of the moment is I think Crowd-sourcing. In Crowd-sourcing you outsource work to un undefined number of people in an open call. Amazon for example has created a function called “Amazon Mechanical Turk“. The idea here is that tasks that humans can do easily (is this a picture of [...]
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