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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. Are you having fun yet? With good reason. Why would they want to do that?

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

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As an adult, my profile shows my username, photo, city, state, and country. For kids, the profile only shows username, photo, and country (and most people use "sprites"--Scratch characters--for their photos). Unlike other online communities, ScratchR does not allow you to "pimp your profile" with all kinds of information.