For those that may find interest in those somewhat annoying letter pictures (call Captcha) that you have to re-type in - I pass along this interesting and amusing video. (I was just checking out the mpesupportgroup.com site and noticed on their contact page, a graphic display of a Captcha. Instead of hard to read letters, they have an animated "waving flag" style) http://mpesupportgroup.com/contact-us.html Keven >> This is 15min. long, but really cool, watch the whole thing - not only is >> it >> a fabulous idea on how to accomplish something impossible, but his >> presentation is hilarious. >> >> "How do we get 100 million people translating the web to every major >> language for free?" >> [https://i.embed.ly/?key=4d90b544096f11e084894040444cdc60&url=http%3A%2F%2Fi2.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F-Ht4qiDRZE8%2Fhqdefault.jpg]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8> >> [https://d116kjvcha6xvt.cloudfront.net/play_overlay.gif]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8> >> >> Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online >> collaboration<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8 >> >> After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize >> books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many >> on >> the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious >> new >> project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while >> translating >> the Web quickly and accurately -- all for free. >> > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *
