30 November 2009
So I was thinking the other day (I know, I know, dangerous…) and it struck me that Amazon could take the red box video idea and merge it with Mechanical Turk for something really revolutionary. If you live in North America, I’m sure you’re familiar with the red box video service that you can find [...]
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21 January 2010
Very cool and interesting site! Nice way to use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, imho. This is from the site: Using AMT to run web-based experiments allows researchers to obtain large quantities of data in a cheap and efficient way. However, there is lack of evidence regarding the actual reliability of AMT’s workforce as a subject pool; as [...]
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31 December 2009
Mechanical Turk is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services. It is a crowd-sourcing marketplace that allows computer programs to coordinate human intelligence to carry out the tasks that can’t be done by computers. People use Mechanical Turk because it allows them to make money. It basically has two main players: Turkers and Requesters. Turkers [...]
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26 December 2009
If you have not yet checked out the Amazon Mechanical Turk for your art experiments, then you should. Turk is very popular for running short and simple art studies and experiments. For example, if you want to know how many people would describe a single art work, or take a survey from a big crowd [...]
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09 December 2009
I don’t know about you, but I expect a little more in a headline from Newsweek. Their story, Work the New Digital Sweatshops, seems a bit sensationalist to me. If you read the piece, the writer does say that they may be a good thing, but it’s kinda concentrated on doom and gloom. From the [...]
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08 December 2009
This would seem to be really obvious, but sadly today on the Internet not everyone follows the same rules. Mashable has a good write-up (Apple Gets Tough on Cheaters, Nukes 1000+ Apps) about Apple taking action against iPhone app developers who allegedly bought votes or ratings for their app using Mechanical Turk.
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13 October 2009
Amazon Mechanical Turk is one of the web services provided by Amazon that allows Requesters to use the services of a group of workers from various parts of the world. The Requesters are usually programmers and entrepreneurs who need certain tasks that cannot be performed effectively by computers. Examples of these tasks include the writing [...]
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13 October 2009
The Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web service that a permits humans to assist computers in performing certain tasks that the machines can not be relied on to do effectively. Despite the advancement in computing technology, humans are still capable of doing certain things more effectively. These include the de-duplication of data, the identification of [...]
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03 October 2009
I started this site way back when Amazon Mechanical Turk was just getting started. After a long absence, I’m back… Stay tuned for more…
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