anonymizes your financial data and then compares it to others’ and figures out ways that you can save money right away
Tag: collaborative
Vanguard Diehards
A site for vanguard fans
Multi Margin Matrix Factorization
a technique for recommendation engines
2channel
based on anonymous posting. i find the idea that merit is per post and not attached to karma extremely interesting.
Mass Transit Geowanking
update estimated arrival times through mobile, and other ideas
Telepresence
Pretty impressive
2007-11-02: Nice article about the organizational structure at cisco, and how they paid for their collaboration tools by cutting travel budgets
“This will shock you. The other day I started the morning with my top staff in India. Then I went to Japan and a meeting with Fujitsu, then on to Cleveland, then London and a meeting with BT. The whole trip took only 3.5 hours, and I was far more effective in the calls.” The reason: Chambers was traveling, of course, over Cisco’s latest gee-whiz product: telepresence, a high-def, life-sized, Internet-based communications system that is to traditional video-conferencing what the latest big-screen surround-sound plasma extravaganza would be to Grandma’s black-and-white set with rabbit ears. “When I asked the team to design this, I said, ‘Make it like Star Trek. You know, Beam me up, Scotty.'”
2008-05-28: Holy crap indeed.
The ‘Cisco On-Stage TelePresence Experience’ was an ambitious collaboration between Cisco and Musion Systems. Musion seamlessly integrated their 3D holographic display technology with Cisco’s TelePresence’s system to create the world’s first real time virtual presentation.
2023-03-03: This whole area has not developed as quickly as hoped. Perhaps because regular video is good enough? Or because most people haven’t even tried video pre-pandemic. Anyway, here’s a late 2022 state of Google Starline. The person in charge of this space has since left, pointing to an AR / VR winter to come.
Coordination in Wikipedia
Our results suggest that despite the potential for anarchy, the Wikipedia community places a strong emphasis on group coordination, policy, and process.
Visual Communication Lab
We develop visualization algorithms that help people see and exchange information in novel ways. Our designs aim to transform visualization from a solitary activity into a collaborative one.
The Visual Side of Wikipedia
How well wiki technology can be tailored to support collaborative image editing remains an open question. Nonetheless, both the creation of the Commons and the recent implementation of SVG support are evidence of Wikipedians’ commitment to turn images
Human Computation
For example, you might ask Mozes Mob (as I recently did) where the best car washes are in San Diego. Local subscribers will ping back almost instantly, via IM or SMS, with answers to your question.
Why do people do it? Call it an example of human computation. People are better searchers than computers are, especially for local services, and they want to share that knowledge. It works, and it’s an insanely interesting app.
using human computation and SMS to improve local search
2007-03-24:
I do this primarily for the money, but I also view it as a form of therapy to get me used to working again> The experience has gotten me thinking about pursuing a library science degree.
2007-09-22:
No one but a utopian would have predicted how readily people will work for free.
in their treatment of human computation. i also like the snarky coining of eHarmony spouse.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 