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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Sat Nov 10, 2007 @ 5:56pm


Coolness: 150575	Web game provides rice for hungry An internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has said. The game, FreeRice, tests the vocabulary of participants. For each click on a correct answer, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice. Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the WFP to buy and distribute the rice. FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1bn grains of rice. That is enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the WFP said on Friday. 'Viral marketing' The head of the WFP, Josette Sheeran, said: "FreeRice really hits home how the web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for he world's number one emergency." She said word of the game has spread with the help of internet bloggers and websites like Facebook and YouTube. "The site is a viral marketing success story." FreeRice is the invention of US online fundraising pioneer John Breen. [ news.bbc.co.uk ] -- [ www.freerice.com ]

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Sat Nov 10, 2007 @ 11:21pm

Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Sat Nov 10, 2007 @ 11:41pm

Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Sun Nov 11, 2007 @ 8:05pm


Coolness: 178760	cool! (just made rice balls for supper and lunch, yum!) Everbody must have rice! Update » cvxn wrote on Sun Nov 11, 2007 @ 8:19pm wheeee, I won 1000 grains! That must be about a bag of rice no?

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Wizdumb replied on Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 3:15pm


Coolness: 122425	110 grains before making a mistake damn, some big words i'd hate to be one to count all that rice

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 11:40pm


Coolness: 192790	Just won 1050 grain of rice, but I did make a couple of mistakes along the way.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 11:56pm


Coolness: 92380	I made them 1800 grains of rice the other day. It's a good way to pass time if you have to, might as well feed some people at the same time.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 4:38pm


Coolness: 150575	Exactly. It's true though, that after you get to words at around lvl 35-40, that they're fucking hard! Still, I thought it was a pretty neat idea, and if actually helps people, why not? It's like killing two birds with one stone... or a single grain of rice.

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