FLIRTing with the Crowds

A new and extensive study by Maaretta Törrö for VTT contributes to the global intellectual capital brokering (read: crowdsourcing) environment by stating that there still lies a large unexploited potential in collaborating with the crowds. It’s nice to see the Finnish VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) focusing strongly on social media and sociality in […]

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Time to rant a bit, since I’ve been very positive lately: which gadget, service, building or vehicle offers the most irritating & frustrating user experience in your daily life? For me it definitely has to be the elevator. Any given elevator usually has some or all of these exquisitely gut wrenching feats:

When you push the […]

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Ok, my posting has been a bit nonexistential lately; new work, tons of projects, thesis still not finished (although it’s neeearly there)… But in the end it has simply boiled down to lack of decision to write. This is going to change. I have taken up a new mode of gathering ideas and especially moving […]

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Just stumbled upon this great example of how to do marketing in social networks like Facebook: Visual Bookshelf lets you collect a virtual collection of books, dvds, games and other bookshelf items you have accrued over the years and display them on your Facebook profile.

The application has all the functionalities you would expect from such […]

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Just back from a refreshing couple of days in Rome where I was attending the Marcus Evans Mobile User Generated Content and Social Networks Forum 2007. The Conference was a nice departure from the average Web 2.0 conference in that it focused solely on mobile aspects of the phenomenon. As a result there were indeed […]

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“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re currently approaching Helsinki…”
Back to blogging after the summer. At the start of June I took up a position as a Developement Manager at eChannels, TeliaSonera Finland - a decision that at first surprised many but one that so far has felt very good. We’re a 30 strong department with roughly […]

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Finally we come to the last of the FLIRT elements, the Tools of the crowdsourcing effort. Without properly executed, functional, usable and well designed platform and tools, even the best founded effort goes to waste. This issue is in large part technical and should reflect the decisions taken in the previous stages of the FLIRT […]

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Well functioning crowdsourcing communities always rely on clear, explicit, and shared rules to deliver an experience that is productive, fun, easy to comprehend for all parties involved, as well safe for everybody to engage in. Rules direct action in the collaborative effort and work as ‘the book of laws’ in disputes. It is necessary to […]

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