Call me cynical, but it's been a long time since I last saw something in the IT or Internet world that made me think "Yay!". Something that creates a buxx for me. Lots of neat web2 sites, lots of neat new devices, 10Gbps & 40Gbps networking, etc. Nice, but no real excitement.
Tonight, though, I came upon
Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and this is
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But the neat appplication was this: at the time, a pilot had gone down over a remote area, and one of the HITs was to look at aerial photos of the area trying to identify debris from the crash. I guess they never did find him, but it was an interesting way to use the technology.
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the stuff i don't like so much is that there are some HITs that strikes me as "producing better spam for unscrupulous people" lately.
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