Sourcing Information Labor On Demand from the Cloud
Listen to my conversation with Lukas Biewald, CEO of CrowdFlower, which uses the Web to instantly source labor on demand for businesses. In this podcast, learn how businesses are recruiting distributed labor via the Internet to quickly get repetitive tasks…
Is the Open Stack Cloud Announcement a Big Deal?
Open stack MIGHT be a big deal, it awaits adoption to see. In discussions with the Enterprise Irregulars, the question came up of whether it was a good analog to view Open Stack as the “Android” to Amazon’s “iPhone” (where is their antennagate?). This is an interesting metaphor as much for what it tells us about [...]
Zero Marginal Product Workers
There’s an interesting debate going on over at Tyler Cowan’s Marginal Revolution blog about Zero marginal product workers. Here’s my theory, which I posted in the comments there: Let’s say Jack and John are both employed doing the same work while employment is high (and fear of unemployment is therefore low–if either loses his job [...]
OpenStack – an open source cloud platform
Rackspace announced the OpenStack project today, open sourcing much of the software it uses to run its own cloud. I spoke with Rackspace’s Jonathan Bryce on the topic to get an in-depth overview, discuss Rackspace’s intentions, and explore the operational future of OpenStack. This is a big announcement in the cloud world, further widening the [...]
