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Re:Why not turn twitter into a massive brain for problem sol... by jacquesm on Sunday October 11, 2009 @06:32PM (#875420)
Twitter as the 'hive mind'.

I'm sure that's already being done, your proposal would formalize it. Sort of an amazon mechanical turk (quite apt, given the example of a chess move) but with twitter users as the 'execution units'.

The fine-grained coverage would actually be a pretty good help as well. Maybe somehow couple it with location ? First to do 'x' will get 'y', tweet filtered by something that knows roughly who is where so you don't get overloaded with things you can't do ?

Re:Why not turn twitter into a massive brain for problem sol... by hikari17 on Sunday October 11, 2009 @07:09PM (#875491)
Isn't Aardvark (http://vark.com) tackling this idea, without limiting the sources of the answers/tasks to twitter?