Skiing. Middleware. Crowdsourcing: Can We Crowdsource Medical Expertise? Earlier this morning I received an email from Christine Maynard, a writer and consultant from Natchez, Louisiana. I'm not sure if she heard me on the radio or came across crowdsourcing in some other way, but she raises an issue I've been wanting to dig into ever since publishing the original crowdsourcing article over two years ago: To what degree could the crowd lend its brainpower to the process of, say, diagnosing or suggesting treatments for diseases? One is tempted to dismiss this notion out of hand. Let the crowd count birds, develop cell phone applications, even create a new restaurant. But keep them away from my MRI scans. This is a pretty understandable reaction, and I've tended to view attempts to crowdsource the professions (law and medicine, namely) with considerable skepticism.
But given the poor quality of much of the healthcare in the United States, to say nothing of the developing world, could the crowd really make so big a mess of things? Here's Maynard: Web 2.0 workplaces [PICS] - UADDit. Web 2.0 is special. And so are the places that make it happen.Here's how the offices of web 2.0 companies look like. I've also added descriptions to each site in case you've been living in a bubble and don't know what they do. Loved and hated by many and founded in march of 2006, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The Twitter door. The social network of the moment. On February 4th, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social network that was at the time exclusively for Harvard students.
With this success, Zuckerberg, Moskowitz and Hughes moved out to Palo Alto for the summer and rented a sublet. Mark putting some to-do items in the impossible whiteboard behind the cabinet Digg is a user driven social content website. In the fall of 2004, Kevin Rose came up with the idea for Digg. Main Page - OpenStreetMap. Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Lan.
Management Consulting 2.0. Web 2.0 finance opens the door to ID theft - TowerGroup. Non-bank personal finance Web sites put customers at risk with lax security and should be made to adhere to the same regulations as traditional online banks, says a new TowerGroup report. Sites like Mint and Wesabe are not adequately protecting customers from account hijackers and identity theft because they only offer single-factor authentication - user names and passwords, says the report.
TowerGroup says it believes these non-bank sites will become a major target for phishing fraudsters, particularly as most bank-operated sites require customers to use multifactor authentication. Personal finance sites must comprehend the sensitive nature of customer data and bolster current data and Web security capabilities with stronger online authentication technologies, says TowerGroup which is calling for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to consider imposing the same regulations that bank have to comply with - specifically the 2005 FFIEC guidance regarding online authentication. Welcome to TheWebService.com - The Home of Web Services. DAYTUM. Wake-up (over 3 years ago) eating in/out (over 3 years ago) the stomach calls (over 5 years ago) cOFFEE + cIGARETTES (over 3 years ago) timetracker (over 5 years ago) /Message. /Message was started in January 2006, following my departure from Corante and the former Get Real blog.
The tagline for /Message was ‘the operating manual for the social revolution' which shows the orientation I have had, and will continue, in my writings here, at this new blog. I am in the process of moving over the great majority of posts from /Message to this new simplified domain, www.stoweboyd.com, now without the following /message. This is not a new blog conceptually, just a reformation of the previous one. The change is really about the problems I have encountered with the previous blog platform (see Why I Am Going To Leave Squarespace) and the desires I have for blogging these days (Goodbye /Message, Hello Stowe Boyd). I plan to move nearly all of the previous /Message to Stowe Boyd over the next few weeks, so bear with me.
Some of the most popular posts are highlighted in the sidebar to the left, and that list will be expanded to about 100 posts. DC 2.0: The Web 2.0 Community in the Nation's Capital.