10 Women

The Faces of Crowdsourcing — Long time user of crowdsourcing marketplace Mechanical Turk Andy Baio decided he wanted to know more about the people using the service. In particular, he wanted to answer two questions: what do these people look like, and how much does it cost for someone to reveal their face? Baio submitted the request and for a maximum price of 50 US cents he got a number of responses which he displayed in the image above. He says: I started the task at $.05, but only two people responded in the first 24 hours. (And one of those was Joshua Schachter,... [Tags: 10 women, 20 men, anonymity, boredom, dollar bills]

Andy Baio, otherwise known as Waxy (I don’t know why) is an independent journalist and programmer who lives in Oregon, and in addition to maintaining one of the most interesting link blogs on the planet he periodically takes on research projects — including an exhaustive investigation of all 300 or so samples used in the new Girl Talk album. In order to compile that data, he used Amazon’s “crowd-sourcing” engine known as the Mechanical Turk, and became fascinated by the idea that hundreds of people were spending their time doing small research jobs for him anonymously through the service. So... [Tags: 10 women, 20 men, amazon, blogs, crowd]

Allyson Kapin has a post on the Huffington Post called Cracking the Boys Club  that shares her top 10 women pioneers of Web 2.0.  I'm honored to be on the list along with some awesome women. Gina Bianchini, CEO and Founder of Ning Mary Hodder, Founder of Dabble.com and VP of Product Development, Apisphere Tara Hunt, Co-Founder Citizen Agency and Citizen Space Sandy Jen, Co-Founder of Meeboo Lynne D. Johnson, Director of Social Media, Fast Company Charlene Li, Consultant and Blogger Susan Mernit, Co-Founder, People's Software Rebecca Moore, Director of Outreach, Google Earth Rashmi Sinha, Co-Founder SlideShare I was... [Tags: 10 women, boys club, ceo, charlene, citizen]

Karzai Demands Obama End Civilian Deaths — WECH BAGHTU, Afghanistan — The Afghan president congratulated Barack Obama and called on him Wednesday to halt civilian casualties as villagers said U.S. warplanes bombed a wedding party, killing 37 people _ most of them children. President Hamid Karzai said airstrikes cannot win the fight against terrorism. "Our demand is that there will be no civilian casualties in Afghanistan. We cannot win the fight against terrorism with airstrikes," Karzai said. "This is my first demand of the new president of the United States _ to put an end to civilian casualties." Karzai spoke about the deaths at a news conference... [Tags: 10 women, ap reporter, barack obama, casualties in afghanistan, civilian casualties in afghanistan]

Karzai: End civilian casualties — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday demanded that President-elect Barack Obama put an end to civilian casualties as villagers said U.S. warplanes bombed a wedding party, killing 37 people, including 23 children and 10 women.... [Tags: 10 women, afghan president hamid karzai, barack obama, civilian casualties, hamid karzai]

Independent Women In Colorado Focus Groups Prefer Palin To Biden — In two different Colorado focus groups of married and unmarried women conducted directly after Thursday's vice presidential debate, respondents broadly agreed that Sarah Palin came off better than Joe Biden. The married and unmarried focus groups of 10 women each were organized by the Womens Voices, Women Vote organization, and conducted by the firm of Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research. But whether or not the women identified said they were independent, undecided or more likely to support one candidate or the other -- virtually all of them said they came away from the debate with a better impression of Palin than... [Tags: 10 women, diction, expectations game, extra credit, first wife]

Vapon writes "A lady noticed her computer was running slower after she had brought her computer in to be repaired. She took the computer to a second repair shop where they found that one of the problems was that her webcam would turn on whenever it detected her around and was taking photos and uploading it to a website. The repair technician that installed the software has done this to at least 10 women and has photos of at least one undressing."Read more of this story at Slashdot.... [Tags: 10 women, photo, photos, repair technician, spying software]

College Student Arrested After Installing Webcam Spy Software On Woman's Laptop [Peeping Tom] — A 23-year-old student named Craig Feigin is facing possible felony charges in Florida for allegedly putting spyware of the worst kind on up to 10 women's laptop computers. The programs, which he apparently wrote himself, would cause the integrated webcams on the laptops take snapshots at certain times when a person was close and upload them to a server on the Internet, where he would be able to browse them at will. This included several photos of at least one woman in various states of undress. The moral of the story: Make sure you trust your computer repair geek, or... [Tags: 10 women, computer repair, craig, felony charges, geek]

College Student Arrested After Installing Webcam Spy Software On Women's Laptops [Peeping Tom] — A 23-year-old student named Craig Feigin is facing possible felony charges in Florida for allegedly putting spyware of the worst kind on up to 10 women's laptop computers. The programs, which he apparently wrote himself, would cause the integrated webcams on the laptops to take snapshots at certain times when a person was close and upload them to a server on the internet, where he would be able to browse them at will. This included several photos of at least one woman in various states of undress. The moral of the story: Make sure you trust your computer repair geek,... [Tags: 10 women, computer repair, craig, felony charges, geek]

Dr. Belisa Vranich: Men And Women: Oh So Different! — Think you know women? Think your man is all that simple? Think again. Sure, some of these are generalizations you may not fit into, but shedding any light on the topic of gender differences can make figuring out your sister in law, boss or stepson a tiny bit easier. DID YOU KNOW? 1. Whose computer is more likely to be infected with a virus? 2. Who is more likely to be attracted to a sense of humor? 3. Who is more likely to date online? 4. Who remembers more people at high school reunions? 5. Who has better peripheral vision?... [Tags: 10 women, 2 women, 4 women, belisa vranich, chick flicks]

MediaGuardian 100 2008: Top 10 women — Comment: BBC executives account for all of the top five most powerful women in UK media. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons... [Tags: 10 women, bbc, caitlin, fitzsimmons, powerful women]