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Very informative and amusing.

Thanks for sharing.


At 11:35 AM 2011-12-09, Keven Miller wrote:
>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.
>
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