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...)

Here is a good example, look at DRADIS – my recent Windows Vista side project. What if I had “AMTSense” on my page and flat out asked you – “Hey, do you like this idea? Do you want to see it grow? This is 1/100 of how I see it in my head! Care to spare some time and do some tiny micro-tasks for me?”… I think you would be more inclined to do that than any other technique there is right now. Not to mention it would gather more supporters as people saw how the collective efforts helped my project. Now say hundreds of people all take the time to do a few HITs for me on a monthly basis. Get the idea? Now let’s get crazy here and take this one step further by making it not just web only.

AMT at the core is a WEB SERVICE, so why not add features to the API that allow users to submit HIT’s directly from desktop programs. You’ve heard of SHAREWARE, what about the concept of WORKWARE (people perform a few micro tasks in your name to pay for the right to use it). I see this concept changing the business model of anything from file download sites to the independent game industry / open source community.

Go read the whole thing.

I really think we're gonna see big (BIG!) things from Amazon's Mechanical Turk over the next few years. It's still in Beta and is one of the cooler ideas to be launched on the 'net in a while. Has long reaching implications, I think.

What do you think?

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