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Fancy Hands tries to let you delegate simple tasks to other humans

Here's an interesting business model: Pay $30/month, and get 15 "tasks" that you can delegate to real, live, human beings who will do them for you. That's what Fancy Hands offers, and ReadWriteWeb seems quite pleased with the service. As you can see in the screenshot above, the tasks can be quite complex. The Fancy Hands site claims that you can send tasks such as: "Send a car to my house ...

Microsoft Agents on the way

Windows Live Agents (similar to IM-bots on other services) are on their way from Microsoft. Since the Microsoft acquisition of Colloquis this week has given them new ways to interact with online visitors, these Windows Live Agents will be providing help for Microsoft customers coming soon. XBOX gamers looking for tech-support should be the first to experience the new technology in action. Let's ...