Comments on: Free Rice http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/11/free-rice/ Thoughts, opinions and fascinating discoveries by Elliot, a student at USC Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:47:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Elliot Lee http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/11/free-rice/#comment-338953 Elliot Lee Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:27:56 +0000 http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/11/free-rice/#comment-338953 Hey Stanley, thanks for the comment! People like to spend their energy playing games. The best games are ones you learn from, such as the Free Rice one, which aims to improve one's vocabulary. I'm not sure what a productive project would be. There are three projects that come to mind: (1) The various distributed computing projects, which do things like find E.T. communications or evaluate possible disease treatments. This isn't human potential, but machine potential. (2) Digitizing the world's books, which I've already mentioned above. (3) Labeling images to improve search and organization. Hey Stanley, thanks for the comment! People like to spend their energy playing games. The best games are ones you learn from, such as the Free Rice one, which aims to improve one’s vocabulary. I’m not sure what a productive project would be.

There are three projects that come to mind: (1) The various distributed computing projects, which do things like find E.T. communications or evaluate possible disease treatments. This isn’t human potential, but machine potential. (2) Digitizing the world’s books, which I’ve already mentioned above. (3) Labeling images to improve search and organization.

]]> By: Stanley Lam http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/11/free-rice/#comment-337926 Stanley Lam Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:58:58 +0000 http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2007/11/11/free-rice/#comment-337926 That's true; there is a lot of untapped potential in the time that people spend clicking around the internet each day. If only there was a way to channel peoples' energy more than by simply raising advertising money. If enough users take from the hours they spend online each day a few minutes and put it into something productive, the end result of all those minutes pooled together could be quite impressive. Two catches: one, to figure out a way to pool together those minutes into a productive project and two, to attract and retain a critical mass of users into this new business project. That’s true; there is a lot of untapped potential in the time that people spend clicking around the internet each day. If only there was a way to channel peoples’ energy more than by simply raising advertising money. If enough users take from the hours they spend online each day a few minutes and put it into something productive, the end result of all those minutes pooled together could be quite impressive. Two catches: one, to figure out a way to pool together those minutes into a productive project and two, to attract and retain a critical mass of users into this new business project.

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