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In Search of Jim Gray
I know Jim Gray.Well, I dont know him personally, but I have watched his presentations at numerous conferences, and thank him often for his ground-breaking work in transactional database design. Business works today, in part, because of that core work.Jim Gray went Missing At Sea on January 28, 2007, after...
Tags: Mechanical Turk, Amazon.com Inc., Jim Gray, image
Blog posts 2007-02-06
In Search of Jim Gray
I know Jim Gray.Well, I dont know him personally, but I have watched his presentations at numerous conferences, and thank him often for his ground-breaking work in transactional database design. Business works today, in part, because of that core work.Jim Gray went Missing At Sea on January 28, 2007, after...
Tags: Jim Gray, Amazon.com Inc., Mechanical Turk, image, General
Blog posts 2007-02-06

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Top Ten Low Cost Ways to Improve Site Usability
November 11, 2009 · by Darpan Munjal I get called by online retailers very frequently who have done significant work in SEO, are driving quite a bit of traffic to their website, but seem to have hit a wall in increasing the revenue. They are baffled that despite all the...
Tags: Web Site, visitor, Usability
News items 2009-11-11
What Is Crowdsourcing?
Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea. The basic idea is to tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to complete business-related tasks that a company would normally either perform itself or outsource to a third-party provider. ...
Tags: NetFlix Inc., E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Amazon.com Inc., Collective Wisdom, BNET Briefing, Software, Procter & Gamble Co., Weak Spots Crowds, Jennifer Alsever, iStockphoto.com, Crowdsourcing
Articles 2007-03-07
iConclude Launches World's First Online IT Operations Content Exchange, Powered by Amazon Mechanical Turk
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- New "iConclude Content Exchange" platform enables IT professionals to create, contribute and download diagnostics and repair automation content
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., information technology
Research articles 2006-06-13
Bringing tech jobs to Third World refugees
Thanks to a nonprofit called Samasource, refugees in Kenya are starting to find Internet-based work that can pay them triple what they could earn before.(Credit: SamasourceWorkers stuck in the world's largest refugee camp are being given a chance to wield a mouse and keyboard as tools for digging their way...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Worker
News items 2009-10-14
Heads Up: Some Samsung Home Video Gear Getting Amazon VOD and Blockbuster Streaming by Firmware Update [Software]
Owners of some recent Samsung HDTVs like the 650 or 7000 series and above, will be getting Amazon video on demand via firmware update. Those TVs, and some blu-ray and HTIB setups detailed below will be getting Blockbuster's video service. Yay for the endless upgrade, boo for the infinite format...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
News items 2009-10-15
MG's ten favorite iPhone apps of 2008
Now, before I write anything else, let me just say that these are my ten favorite iPhone applications of 2008 and not necessarily what I think are the ten best iPhone apps — because really, there are so many diverse apps, how can one judge which is the best of...
News items 2009-08-07
LiveBlogging from HCOMP 2009
I am now attending HCOMP2009 , the workshop on Human Computation that I previously advertised in this blog . Overall, the workshop was well-attended with more than 40 people in the audience, pretty much filling the room. Below you can find the notes that I was keeping...
Tags: game, Workshop
News items 2009-11-05
Apple Gets Tough on Cheaters, Nukes 1000+ Apps
The sheer size of Apple's app store makes it difficult for independent developers to stand out from the crowd. Some developers come up with creative concepts to get the word out , others rely on scamming and gaming different iTunes policies . Fortunately, Apple has...
Tags: Apple Inc., App, Developer
News items 2009-12-07
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