It (or he/she?) doesn’t need to, there is now a platform to connect to others. I wouldn’t call it the Facebook for Robots, it’s more like a giant Academia but RoboEarth enable robots to share their experiences, their learnings. It is a Cloud environment that allows them also to use external storage and computation [...]
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Small talk on Big Data
Last week I presented this topic to professional women at PWI here in Brussels. It’s called ‘small talk’ because it is not a technical presentation but one for a broader audience, to create awareness on this Big Data trend. The main concept I wanted them to take away is the change in the business arena [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Crowdfunding at the rescue of Iron Sky
Watch out of the dark side of the moon, the Nazis are hiding there and want to invade the Earth! This weekend I had the opportunity to see the projection of Iron Sky, a dark science fiction comedy from the creators of Star Wreck. The film is a Finnish-German-Australian co-production, with a budget of about [...]
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CrowdFlower Reports Revenue of 300% Year Over Year and More Than 300 Million Enterprise Level Crowdsourced Microtasks Completed, Earning #1 Rank in Industry CrowdFlower is a microtasking crowdsourcing enterprise. The company solves information-based problems like product categorization, SEO content creation, web verifications, etc… by splitting the task into small pieces (micro-tasks), and giving them to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Popularity ranking for five main crowdsourcing categories
Eric Blattberg, in his article The five crowdsourcing categories ranked: Popularity in social media gives us an analysis of how these 5 crowdsourcing categories ranked last year: cloud labor, crowd creativity, crowdfunding, distributed knowledge and open innovation. Here are the main results: What do the world’s social media users think about crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing.org partnered [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Microtasks market grew almost 4 times in 2011
Check this article from David Bratvoldt, Enterprise Crowdsourcing blasts off as social media growth industry. His research forsees a growth of the crowdsourcing microtask sector of around 355% this year. I am interested in your opinion: Are you hearing about crowdsourcing in the enterprises around you? Do you think it’s good or bad for our [...]
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Hello, Ladies. Here are the slides about Crowdsourcing I presented to you end September. Crowdsourcing PWI Sept-2011 View more presentations from Corina Ciechanow
Read the rest of this entry »Thierry Happe’s insight into the digital revolution
Yesterday, I had the pleasure to hear Thierry Happe, president and cofounder of the Netexplorateur Observatory, talking about the influences of the digital society in the fields of journalism, marketing and education. He came from France, invited by the IHEC and Wanabe, and as he said, had to limit himself to 3 topics because the [...]
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This is great news! Players of the game FoldIt solved the puzzle of the molecular structure of a protein causing AIDS in rhesus monkeys that hadn’t been solved for 15 years. The game FoldIt has been created to propose as a game the scientific problem of finding the 3D molecular structure of a protein. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Experience on Crowdsourcing Screenplays and Videos
The most mentioned benefits of Crowdsourcing are that reaching many people allows you to do things cheaper and faster. This properties have been tested by Stephen de Souza, screenwriter, and Sunil Rajaraman, CEO of Scripped.com. They published their experience in: Crowdsourcing creative content: a case study, check hereunder their Lessons Learned! Steven de Souza has written [...]
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