Citizen Science hits again with EyeWire

Hear of this crowdsourcing success story at EyeWire:   Crowd-sourced science isn’t just fun and games anymore; it has produced a scientific discovery new and important enough to be published in the journal Nature. The social gaming venture EyeWire lured citizen scientists to follow retinal neurons across multiple two-dimensional photos with the chance to level Read More …

MOOCs: the new learning style

Last week I presented MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at the Professional Women International association in Brussels, Belgium. I had the pleasure of talking to the participants afterwards.  They told me they were so pleased to learn they had such an easy way of taking good quality courses that they were going to check that Read More …

Is your Robot feeling lonely? Connect it to RoboEarth

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 Read More …

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 More …

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 Read More …

Crowdsourcing is a flourishing market

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 More …

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 More …

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 Read More …