Sunday, 5 June 2011
Credit cards on the ipad
So according to spifty.co.uk you can now process credit card payments with the iPad. is there no end to what the iPad can do?
Friday, 18 February 2011
What is crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing is a means for businesses to complete tasks that normaly get completed in house and outsourcing it to the crowd i.e. the general population, on an open call basis. It works on the basis that the more information gathered from the widest possible ensemble, the higher the quality and relevance of the end result.
This technique can be used to solve just about any problem: from simple decision making to complex product developments. For example a company may have a very large amount of data to analyse and very few people to carry it out. The power of the internet allows them to post the data online and invite who ever wants to to analyse the data and complete the work for them. Or say I wanted to find out what the best sandwiches are then I could run a poll asking everyone on the site to give me their best sandwich.
Jeff Howe, who was one of the first commentators to use the term “crowdsourcing”, split crowdsourcing into four distinct areas: Crowdfunding, Crowdcreation, Crowdvoting and Crowdwisdom.
Crowdcreation, or crowd creation, relates to creative activities such as the creation of the open source software Linux or the iStockPhoto project that uses the contributions of amateurs to build a stock Photo library.
Crowd funding, or crowdfunding, is a particularly interesting concept in which the crowd provides financial support to individuals.
Crowd voting, crowdvoting is the most popular form of croudsourcing and is the one people are most likely to take part in. In fact if you have ever rated a product or reviewed a movie then you have participated in crowdvoting.
Crowd wisdom, crowdwisdom, uses the wisdom of the crowd to solve problems. Studies have shown that the average decisions of a crowd of ordinary people will almost always outperform that of a concentrated group of even the most intelligent people.
Spifty.co.uk provides much more information on crowdsourcing.
This technique can be used to solve just about any problem: from simple decision making to complex product developments. For example a company may have a very large amount of data to analyse and very few people to carry it out. The power of the internet allows them to post the data online and invite who ever wants to to analyse the data and complete the work for them. Or say I wanted to find out what the best sandwiches are then I could run a poll asking everyone on the site to give me their best sandwich.
Jeff Howe, who was one of the first commentators to use the term “crowdsourcing”, split crowdsourcing into four distinct areas: Crowdfunding, Crowdcreation, Crowdvoting and Crowdwisdom.
Crowdcreation, or crowd creation, relates to creative activities such as the creation of the open source software Linux or the iStockPhoto project that uses the contributions of amateurs to build a stock Photo library.
Crowd funding, or crowdfunding, is a particularly interesting concept in which the crowd provides financial support to individuals.
Crowd voting, crowdvoting is the most popular form of croudsourcing and is the one people are most likely to take part in. In fact if you have ever rated a product or reviewed a movie then you have participated in crowdvoting.
Crowd wisdom, crowdwisdom, uses the wisdom of the crowd to solve problems. Studies have shown that the average decisions of a crowd of ordinary people will almost always outperform that of a concentrated group of even the most intelligent people.
Spifty.co.uk provides much more information on crowdsourcing.
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