Warning: Completely addictive. Word games, anyone?
Google Image Labeler
"Get your creative synapses firing by (a) viewing images from Google's vast library and then (b) free-associating words. Google turns it into a game by pairing you with an online partner; when both of you tag an image with the same word, a new image appears. Time's up after 90 seconds. Clever crowdsourcing for Google (which is using the input to improve its image-tagging accuracy); good brain calisthenics for you."
via Away with Words
It's interesting because while it's good to come up with creative answers, you also usually end up matching on incredibly simplistic words like "people", "ocean", or "tree". I've started submitting colors in the picture and you realize that if you both mistake the person pictured as someone else it could be incorrectly tagged. Neat idea and good way to harness the people power of the internet.
I've already amassed 3300 points (EDIT: Make that 6000. I swear I'm done now). And yes, I'm eftsoons.
ps. It's really not useful to come up with crazy words like entrepreneurialism, forbearance, and bequeathing. What are people actually going to search for? SIMPLE WORDS, PEOPLE! UPDATE: Okay, I'm convinced I'm being paired with a machine guest. People do not label pictures of a cat with "forbearance" or "bequeathing". WTF!?
"Get your creative synapses firing by (a) viewing images from Google's vast library and then (b) free-associating words. Google turns it into a game by pairing you with an online partner; when both of you tag an image with the same word, a new image appears. Time's up after 90 seconds. Clever crowdsourcing for Google (which is using the input to improve its image-tagging accuracy); good brain calisthenics for you."
via Away with Words
It's interesting because while it's good to come up with creative answers, you also usually end up matching on incredibly simplistic words like "people", "ocean", or "tree". I've started submitting colors in the picture and you realize that if you both mistake the person pictured as someone else it could be incorrectly tagged. Neat idea and good way to harness the people power of the internet.
I've already amassed 3300 points (EDIT: Make that 6000. I swear I'm done now). And yes, I'm eftsoons.
ps. It's really not useful to come up with crazy words like entrepreneurialism, forbearance, and bequeathing. What are people actually going to search for? SIMPLE WORDS, PEOPLE! UPDATE: Okay, I'm convinced I'm being paired with a machine guest. People do not label pictures of a cat with "forbearance" or "bequeathing". WTF!?