(dot) Good Idea
Welcome to "(dot) Good Idea". This is an "Advent" blog where I post what is almost a good idea every day leading up to Christmas. You are welcome to use the good ideas, if you are mad enough, all I ask for is a small share of the profits. :-)
Friday, 4 December 2009...
How do you spell (dot)goodidea
Today I was wondering how most people spell a particular word. I did not want to know how it should be spelt, I wanted to know if Jo Public could spell it. A questions that should be towards the top of any brand selection list.
I could not just post the question to twitter as my spelling will influence the response, so it would need recording as audio. I then remembered the clever reCaptcha that uses words scanned from books that the OCR reading software can not interpret to check if the user is human by getting them to type in two words. They know what one of the words is to check the person is a person, but not the other one and are using the users responses to figure out what that is.
Why don't we do the same with audio? Users can listen to two words and submit what they hear, just as they submitted what they read two with reCaptcha.
It's a total winner let me tell you. Grated it might be a little difficult to use if you can not spell, but only about 90% of blog writers can't spell so that will be fine. Also I am struggling for a revenue stream, but that does not stop Twitter so lets worry about that later.
The entire world will want to use this. Are you in?
I could not just post the question to twitter as my spelling will influence the response, so it would need recording as audio. I then remembered the clever reCaptcha that uses words scanned from books that the OCR reading software can not interpret to check if the user is human by getting them to type in two words. They know what one of the words is to check the person is a person, but not the other one and are using the users responses to figure out what that is.
Why don't we do the same with audio? Users can listen to two words and submit what they hear, just as they submitted what they read two with reCaptcha.
It's a total winner let me tell you. Grated it might be a little difficult to use if you can not spell, but only about 90% of blog writers can't spell so that will be fine. Also I am struggling for a revenue stream, but that does not stop Twitter so lets worry about that later.
The entire world will want to use this. Are you in?
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