FLIRTing with the Crowds

Collaboration and sociality in design, business & technology

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Entries from September 2008

Speaking at Online Information 08 in London

September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I will be speaking about the FLIRT model of crowdsourcing and Sonera’s new collaborative service AIVO (Finnish for BRAIN) on the 3rd of December in London at the Online Information 2008.
Be there. No alternatives.

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Tags: crowdsourcing

My Presentation at IIR Consumer Trends ‘09

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

The title says it all. Click here for the presentation on slideshare. Only in Finnish, I’m afraid.Remember to keep it in electric form in order to save the environment

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Tags: crowdsourcing · business

Hacking your clothes

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

 So Apple’s patent application aimed to battle sneaker hackers with a kind of ‘DRM for garments’ is spurring some controversy. Many, including Nicholas Carr, are worried that the activity of a few sneaker geeks is inflicting an overt response from big companies aiming at DRMing everything from your sneakers to your soul. Together with Apple’s […]

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Tags: research · technology · design · business

Adobe works with its users’ gripes

September 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The professional creative world is stuck with Adobe. That’s one thing that is not going to change anytime soon. However, although the usability of Adobe products is usually on a pretty ok level, Adobe’s products are far from being perfect and stable, while at the same time demanding increasing amounts of firepower with each iteration.
The […]

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Tags: marketing · technology · design · business

The Best Viral of 2008? Or just accidental marketing?

September 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

My friend Riku Vassinen already christened yearbookyourself.com to be the most effective viral of 2008. For this verdict, I would need to see how much clickstream/business the site is generating to the actual advertisers’ sites (multiple brands represented there and it seems the site is paid for by a group of malls), but it certainly […]

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