Here Robin Cangie is talking about Bolder, Kickstarter, Edot and many other companies that are enacting real social change on the social web: What Does a 21st-Century Business Look Like? The missions and business models of these companies vary widely, but there are three main things that they all have in common: 1. They depend [...]
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Crowdsourcing in Search and Data Mining
Here are some Notes from “Crowdsourcing in Search and Data Mining” (CSDM) workshop taken by Panos Ipeirotis. The workshop took place in Hong Kong, just a few days ago, and tackled different issues on crowdsourcing, like: – When should we let people talk to each other vs let them work independently? – How Crowdsourçable is [...]
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I participated to a very nice ECCO seminar last week from Chris Exton (University of Limerick). He is investigating recent internet phenomena such as crowdsourcing and open-source, and tries to explain it from an evolutionary psychology perspective. He is linking it to altruism, a characteristic that, from an evolution point of view, is seen as positive for human society.
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