Comments on: Massive-scale online collaboration: Luis von Ahn on TED.com

By: Duolingo | Linguistics 212

Duolingo | Linguistics 212 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:26:57 +0000

[...] http://blog.ted.com/2011/12/06/massive-scale-online-collaboration-luis-von-ahn-on-ted-com/ [...]

By: Weekly Wrap « Exploring Apprenticeship

Weekly Wrap « Exploring Apprenticeship — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:01:21 +0000

[...] 16 minutes to watch this video. What an awesome idea! Share this:TwitterEmailFacebookDiggLike this:LikeBe the first to like [...]

By: Summer Learning, Summer Fun « Mr. Honea's Math Page

Summer Learning, Summer Fun « Mr. Honea's Math Page — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:23:22 +0000

[...] is an online language-learning program. If you were in my Pack-Time, you saw a Ted Talk where the inventor talks about how they came up with this as a way to help people learn languages, [...]

By: Have you met TED?

Have you met TED? — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:59:47 +0000

[...] Regardez donc cette vidéo de l’inventeur du [...]

By: CAPTCHAs: What are the funniest CAPTCHA combinations? - Quora

CAPTCHAs: What are the funniest CAPTCHA combinations? - Quora — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:59:34 +0000

[...] a great TED talk by Luis von Ahn, an inventor of Captcha, that includes several excellent examples.http://blog.ted.com/2011/12/06/m…The context makes that last one even funnier:As a former Edwards supporter, who has watched recent [...]

By: Security updates - CAPTCHA | Scalr Blog

Security updates - CAPTCHA | Scalr Blog — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:52:16 +0000

[...] http://blog.ted.com/2011/12/06/massive-scale-online-collaboration-luis-von-ahn-on-ted-com/ [...]

By: When life gives you lemons, create an engaging web experience. |

When life gives you lemons, create an engaging web experience. | — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:27:43 +0000

[...] seconds you spend trying to decipher those jumbled letters are actually doing the world some good. CAPTCHA creator Luis von Ahn realized that although CAPTCHA was already helping secure the internet from spambots, it was also [...]

By: Duolingo | Psychology and Technology

Duolingo | Psychology and Technology — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:49:43 +0000

[...] on TED. One of them, got me particularly interested, it was a video that started talking about Massive scale colaboration. Watching this video I discovered where the infamous and sometimes impossible to decipher Captchas [...]

By: Friday Thoughts - Feb 24 - How to constructively respond to feedback | Friday Thoughts

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:24:10 +0000

[...] People complete over 200 million Captcha authentications each day – Did you know that every time you fill a two word ReCaptcha you are contributing to book digitization? You and 750 million people have helped digitize 2 ½ million books. Great TED Talk [...]

By: Ferdinand Roseboom

Ferdinand Roseboom — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:37:21 +0000

For the Nobel Prize he’d just need to get the millions of Farmvillians to plant and tend real crops and FeedEx and others to ship them for free. It would be the end of world hunger.