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Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, ToolsArchability aims to help clients looking for architecture and design solutions, and to provide a project marketplace for skilled professionals. We caught up with the platform's founder and CEO, Livingstone Mukasa, to discuss the motivations behind his platform and why now, more than ever, it can become an essential service for thousands of individuals.
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Distributed KnowledgeHigh speed science - will it save lives?
Amid concern that the Peer Review process may hold back speedy solutions, and with little financial incentive to improve drugs to make them more effective, Open Science projects are springing up all over the web. Here’s the lowdown on some of the problems and solutions facing experimental lab research and some of the innovative projects that are emerging as a result.
Matthew Todd, an organic chemist from the University of Sydney’s School of Chemistry used a Google Tech Talk as a platform to preach the spirit of openness that is part of the Google ethos in the hope that this openness can be widely adopted by the scientific community.
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Crowd CreativityIn 2000, a college student named Jake Nickell entered a t-shirt design contest hosted by Dreamless.org, a (now defunct) online forum for web programmers and graphic designers. The winning design would become the official t-shirt of a Dreamless event in London. Out of about 100 entries, Nickell’s design won the contest.
Jacob DeHart, another college student with a passion for design, also entered the competition. Though his design didn’t win, he and Nickell (who had met through the forum) began to talk about how much fun it was to participate in the contest. “Dreamless was all about art and design and a lot of artists on there had 'battles' and shared/critiqued their work with each other,” wrote Nickell in a blog post entitled ‘ Threadless.com: The History’. “It was all around a very creative environment for hobbyists and professionals alike to unleash some creativity in their free time.” That got the two thinking: what if they held an ongoing design contest where the winning t-shirts would go on sale? Soon, Threadless was born.
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Cloud LaborOne cloud labor platform's 2012 numbers paint a picture of clear and sustained growth for the online labor market that's consistent with what we've been seeing for at least the last half-decade, but what is most interesting is to note where many of the workers and the companies they perform tasks for are located.
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