A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
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 Read More …
Hello, Ladies. Here are the slides about Crowdsourcing I presented to you end September. Crowdsourcing PWI Sept-2011 View more presentations from Corina Ciechanow
Zoe Kleinman reported in the BBC NEWS that UK Government opens data to public. Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the WEB, is behind this project, big mentality change for the UK governement 🙂 : An ambitious website that will open up government data to the public will launch in beta, or pilot, form in December. Reams Read More …
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 Read More …
Max Schrems is a law student from Vienna. He is filing Facebook for data privacy issues. What he discovered is that not only Facebook keeps everything you typed in or uploaded to your account (they have about 1200 A4 pages of information about him, and he is only 24 years old!), but also they keep Read More …
The New York Times posted an article from John Markoff :Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’, informing that a US Intelligence Unit launched a research program to analyse public data and find predictions of social and political relevance. Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet Read More …
Before, you should consider everything you wrote in Facebook as public. Now with Open Graph, the new application Mark Zuckerberg presented, everything YOU DO in Facebook will be public too. […] First, Facebook observed that asking people to manually Like, Share, or Comment on content requires an extra step that actually inhibits sharing and interaction. Read More …
Give Data as you give Blood. Global Pulse, an innovation initiative in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, wants to analyse private data for the public good. The idea is to find patterns in data coming from private companies, and share those findings. For that, they have to find a way enterprises can deliver Read More …
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 More …
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 Read More …