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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us These games were developed by Carnegie Mellon with funding from the NSF, with the goal of harnessing collective intelligence (and interest in playing games) to tag all of the images on the internet. and the game metric of scoring makes for a fairly compelling game. With good reason.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. ScratchR's intentional avoidance of popularity as a metric of success may foster more participation in small community groups, like galleries, that can give satisfaction in loves, comments, and remixes, if not in huge view counts.