Just having heard about Amazon.com's new Crowdsourcing-powered service, I thought I'd give it a try.
Summary: take a picture of any product, Amazon uses it's crowd-powered Mechanical Turk to find it for you.
What I did:
I took a picture of a product in my house (a Sodastream Seltzer water maker - my favorite product bar none) and used Amazon's iPhone app to upload the photo to them.
Results:
Within 2 minutes, they found the product, listed it on my Amazon.com home page, sent me an email, and showed the result in the iPhone app. Astounding. This is a whole new way of computer programming - and it's predicated on the crowdsourcing engine. Think how well this could work for nonprofits / social good.
Screenshots here:
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