Seth has a good idea
December 1st, 2006 by Robert
Seth Godin has a really cool idea concerning captchas. The idea is to commercialize them by using logos and such from sponsoring companies. This is a really cool idea and actually something that I could do 
I did some quick research and it seems that most people don’t really like the obfuscated character images anyway (including me). They can be hard to read or use colors that not everyone can see clearly, etc. Some are also experimenting with audio, including Captchas.net and Google. One interesting implementation being done HumanAuth by Gigoit.
It would probably be harder to get the advertisers and the end users than it would be to build the system.
For those not quite familiar with captchas, you can visit the wikipedia explanation, but it is basically a means for a computer to tell that a human is the user instead of another computer. It is used quite commonly as a means to prevent spamming in blog comments and such. The most common means of doing this is generating a serious of graphical characters that the user must input to confirm they are in fact a human.
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Deepak Says
Now computing is directed toward beyond 0 and 1. I’m sure in next few years you’ll see better solution. I’m completly agree on the fact that Captcha need to design so that it shouldnt be a burden, rather it’ll be fun. Earlier experiments of ESP-PIX turn out to be fun and more secure.
Dec 5th, 2006 at 1:46 pm