From feedburner.com
()
Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Amazon's Mechanical Turk is searching for missing adventurer Steve Fossett.
The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.
Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs.
Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the somewhat limited Mturk Requester site.
Requesters can ask that Workers fulfill Qualifications before engaging a task, and they can set up a test in order to verify the Qualification. They can also accept or reject the result sent by the Worker, which reflects on the Worker's reputation. Currently, a Requester has to have a U.S. address, but Workers can be anywhere in the world.
Payments for completing tasks can be redeemed on Amazon.com via gift certificate or be later transferred to a Worker's U.S. bank account. Requesters, which are typically corporations, pay 10 percent of the price of successfully competed HITs (or more for extremely cheap HITs) to Amazon.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk
Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs.
Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the somewhat limited Mturk Requester site.
Requesters can ask that Workers fulfill Qualifications before engaging a task, and they can set up a test in order to verify the Qualification. They can also accept or reject the result sent by the Worker, which reflects on the Worker's reputation. Currently, a Requester has to have a U.S. address, but Workers can be anywhere in the world.
Payments for completing tasks can be redeemed on Amazon.com via gift certificate or be later transferred to a Worker's U.S. bank account. Requesters, which are typically corporations, pay 10 percent of the price of successfully competed HITs (or more for extremely cheap HITs) to Amazon.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk
Last month saw the launch of CrowdFlower, an interesting venture that applies Dolores Labs’ Labor-as-a-Service platform to the non-profit “micro employment” foundation Samasource.
We’ve previously covered web-based labor and outsourcing services — notably Shorttask and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk — that match-make workers and tasks, and I’ve been critical of the unsustainable [...]
More perspectives...
My husband was unemployed and the recession loomed large. Learn how Amazon Mechanical Turk (mturk) helped me earn over $1,400 in seven months. Read my story.Contributor: Carolyn BlevinsPublished: Nov 21, 2009
More perspectives...
From associatedcontent.com
()
Amazon.com executive Sharon Chiarella used a presentation at the Global Sourcing Forum and Expo in New York City to extol the benefits of crowdsourcing for organizations, citing the companies using Amazon.coms Mechanical Turk platform. Mechanical Turk enlists massive online crowds to help companies complete tasks. - NEW YORK A million strangers could benefit
a company more than a handful of highly trained employees, at least if you...
More perspectives...
From eweek.com
()
I know Amazon Mechanical Turk is sort of gimmicky and sometimes shady. I know that the rates can make working in a sweat shop seem lucrative. But I transfered my $6.95 over to an Amazon.com gift card and bought my next book club book used for a total Read More......(read more)
More perspectives...
From teacherlingo.com
()
If you could earn virtual coin in exchange for doing simple real world tasks, would you do it? Now there's a way to find out: Gambit, a company that specializes in monetizing social gaming, has teamed with Crowdflower, which manages crowd-sourced tasks for clients to create a weirdly novel hybrid system. Players who complete tasks for Crowdflower companies can earn social gaming credits in exchange for their work.The system, dubbed Gambit...
More perspectives...
From fastcompany.com
()
Adds the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing capability to Joomla. It allows you to create and review HIT's for a site evaluation.
Date Updated: 2009-11-04
Developer: MrRoyce
Tags: internet, joomla
APIs: Amazon Mechanical Turk, PayPal
More perspectives...
From feedburner.com
()
10 Ways Small Businesses Can Harness Big Crowds by Ross Kimbarovsky, co ...Small Business News (blog)What it is: Mechanical turk is a marketplace for getting various tasks performed by distributed groups of people. Tasks posted to Mechanical Turk are ...
More perspectives...
From news.google.com
()
