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 [...]
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Women In Tech : There is Hope says Vivak Wadhwa
I loved this article from Vivak Wadhwa, from Stanford University about (the lack of) women in technology. He was saying that Sillicon Valley seemed to him a meritocracy, as a lot of nationalities where represented, but then his wife make him see the missing element…women! You can argue that for a real diversity, we should [...]
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Every day more than 2.5 quintillion (2.5 x 1018 ) bytes of data are created, coming from business and bank transactions, posts on social media sites, digital photos, videos, and other sensors as GPS signal and more. Big Data is the name of the mass of unstructured data available nowadays on Internet. All this large [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Julie Meyer, founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, was also very interesting calling the economy in our 21st. century the ‘Individualist Capitalism’. Her very clever message to all entrepreneurs was: Look at your ‘Natural Allies’, ask yourself who has interest in your success. They are going to be there and help you to be successful! [...]
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Yesterday was the great day. Eleven hours of TED, full of talks of around 8 minutes each: what a challenge for the speakers, and for the audience! It was tiring, but worth it. What did I like the most? By far and on a different register than the other speakers, Paddy Ashdown: what a clear [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Great Creative World Forum 2011
The Creative World Forum took place in Hasselt, Belgium this year, with almost 2.500 participants! Next year it will be in Rio, Brazil, and I am telling you this because it will be hold very conveniently in August, so if you didn’t plan you holidays yet… Brazil is a terrific place for that too ) [...]
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In todays’ article from GIGAOM, Michael Wolf explains Why Google should buy Barnes & Noble. The release of the Kindle Fire has many pointing to Amazon’s vision for the tablet as a breakthrough. After all, with it’s low price, curated approach to the crowded world of Android apps and a content-first approach, it looks like [...]
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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
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