interesting talk

I was emailed this link of a talk from a friend about “massive-scale collaboration” and decided to take the time to watch it because of the subject line…

Really interesting projects related to cloud sourcing, something I know very little about. One of the project the speaker presented is CAPTCHA (the thing you have to type in when you are verifying yourself as a human user on websites) and using that to digitize books. The projects made me wonder, can KT research (or any other research disciplines) benefit from the idea of working together/enabling others? Are there applications for my work?

I am still pondering the last Q.

The video is about 16mins long. It’s worth it.
http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration.html