The Extraordinaries app for micro-volunteering

The Extraordinaries is an interesting new concept in the growing field of iPhone applications — it allows people to use the every part of their spare time cow (waiting for a movie to start, riding a bus, waiting in line) to do small bits of volunteering through “micro-actions.” Mediaite reports.

Some possibilities:

-- Translate a nonprofit's Website into a foreign language
-- Record locations of potholes for municipalities
-- Identify birds for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
-- Tag images for the Smithsonian
-- Transcribe ancient texts for ReCaptcha
-- Review congressional bills for hidden pork
-- Fact check for reporters

Watch dedicated Extraordinaries channel on YouTube

emily | 8:54 AM | Cell Phone Apps Reviews |
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