Google has acquired reCAPTCHA and plans to use the system for digitizing books. Wait… what? CAPTCHA is the method of requiring a user to type in a visually obscured word to prove they are human. How can this digitize books? The answer is a bit obscure and takes some time to discover, but you’ll have fun along the way.
The Google blog links to a Google TechTalk video on Human Computation as an example of how they plan to use their new acquisition. It’s embedded below but at 51 minutes we figure most won’t watch it all so we…

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Over the past few years Facebook has grown from a tool for connecting with others to a tool for sharing information with others. This new model is helping Facebook to collect more relevant information about consumers and is slowly changing the advertising world forever. We are in the midst of a shift toward monitoring our digital footprints and Facebook is currently taking the lead in what appears to be a battle for our commercial identities.

The Death Of Cookie Advertising
As the internet emerged, numerous technologies began to sprout up which provided marketers with the ability to group, monitor, and…

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Game Jackal Pro is the ultimate quot must have quot killer app for the PC gamer If you like most gamers find it annoying looking for and inserting the CD ROM for your favorite game each time you play it then Game Jackal Pro is for you Keeping your gaming investment safe One major concern gamers have is the CD 39 s life span The CD ROM for a popular game may be inserted and removed many hundreds of times this of course leads to the inevitable quot Unable to read quot error and ultimately a trip to the trash…