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Still No Killer Apps For Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Waaaay back in January of this year, the great Read/Write Web blog had a good post about mTurk from Amazon. The question is - how is the service about nine months later? Well, there was the big Steve Fossett thing. That wasn't a 'killer app' as much as an interesting social phenomenon online.
Phonecalls from Amazon Regarding mTurk?
Crystallina, a member at Turker Nation posted today about receiving a phonecall survey from Amazon regarding mTurk. Others on the thread wondered if it was a way to screen legitimacy of accounts. Crystallina has been a member there since March 2007 and has almost 300 posts.
ShopLocal HITs at Amazon's Mechanical Turk
A thread at Turker Nation was started on September 11 by someone curious about the ShopLocal HITs available.
"I make $1.45 a week and I love it"
Katharine Mieszkowski recently had an article at Salon about Amazon's Mechanical Turk, asking if it was, "a boon for the bored or a virtual sweatshop?" (Note: you have to click thru an ad to read the whole article for free if you're not a subscrinber.)
Crowdsourcing with Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Always Blogging has an interesting post about the Why Are You Here Now? book project taking place on mTurk. Good reading.
AMTSense - Amazon Mechanical Turk Off-site
BPAndrew over at Bitporters Media Blog has a great post with a good idea for Amazon Mechanical Turk. (Thanks to Jeff Barr for the refer...)
Mechanical Turk In Action
Jeff Barr over at AWS blog (which should be in your newsread by now!) had a great post late last month about a specific review of the mTurk process.
Comment Turk Almost Exists
Hmm. Very interesting post by Paul Watson about Comment Turk - a proposed method to allow Turkers to approve comments. It seems the tests for Hit Builder were based on approving guestbook comments. Three Turkers decided whether or not the comment made it to the site.
Work for Mechanical Turk
Heh. And I don't mean as just another Turker. Scouring the web for all news Mechanical Turk related, I came across this job listing at Career Builder. (Career Builder being the site it is, I couldn't easily tell how old the ad was. Maybe Barr or someone knows if the position has been filled?)
Humans Teaching Machines to be More Human
Over at Geek Limit, AtariBoy has some interesting thoughts and questions about mTurk (or MT as he calls it - which is another thread altogether - what's your pet name for Mechanical Turk?) In any case, the post asks some basic what if questions about the service.
