Trillion Fund Where Normal People Can Invest And Save The World
We spoke about the new JO last week.In a landmark decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed on Friday that Section … Read More
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Predicting The Facebook IPO: The Crowd Gets It Wrong
A large amount of self-assurance might be harmful. The optimism that greeted the Facebook IPO has evaporated, as Mark Zuckerberg reflects on Facebook’s share price … Read More
An Eye for the Eye: Mapping Retinal Neurons with the Crowd
If you’ve ever had a close encounter with a lamppost, you’ll know that the eye can sometimes be tricked. After all, considering how complicated the … Read More
Keep Watching the Iron Skies!
Forget about climate change, zombie apocalypses, Mayan prophecies, and asteroid calamities. All of this is ridiculous. What you should be concerned about is a possible … Read More
Could Crowd-Driven Think Tanks Be Weapons Of Mass Instruction?
What comes to mind when you hear the term “think tank”? Is it possible for a group of passionate advocates to conduct an effective and … Read More
Duolingo Beta Put To The Test: Can You Learn A Language While Translating The Web?
I watched this TED talk by Luis von Ahn a while ago in order to avoid doing some work. while his name may not be … Read More
Microtask Takes The (Red Herring) Cake
Microtask has won Red Herring’s Global 100 prize for 2011. We’ve now joined the ranks of firms like Google, Skype, Baidu, Salesforce.com, YouTube, eBay, and … Read More
Paying The Price For Google Maps?
Last week, Google shocked cartographers when it announced plans to charge for the use of the Google Maps API. The cost of loading one thousand … Read More
Games At The Museum: Mia Ridge Interview
Mia Ridge, a culture heritage technologist at Monyo, is an advocate for crowd-sourced museum gaming. Mia has worked as a developer for several world-class museums … Read More
FixMyTransport: Keep Calm And Carry On Crowdsourcing
Everyone has a bad experience with mass transit, just as everyone has a terrible experience when going on a first date or being interviewed at … Read More
