10 days ago
Andy Baio : Feedback Army, cheap and quick usability testing built on Mechanical Turk - get 10 random people's feedback for $7
philgyford : Feedback Army - Home [Website Feedback Service] - Get feedback on your website from Mechanical Turk users. Ten responses $7. (via Waxy)
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Illustrated book of cat stories created with Mechanical Turk - experiment idea: can random turkers create a compelling narrative? [via]
Rod Begbie : Amazing but True Cat Stories - The best use of Mechanical Turk so far: Paying people pennies to draw cats and supply cat stories. [via] #
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turkers reconstruct a $100 bill using custom drawing tools for 1 cent per drawing [via]
nelson : 10,000 cents - Mechanical Turk art project to recreate a $100 bill
Rod Begbie : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill. [via] #
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23 month ago
Rod Begbie : O'Reilly Radar > TurkTunes? - Combine Amazon's various webservices to create a "hum a song into a microphone and find out what it is" system. Most cunning feature: Using the "Mechanical Turk" artificial-artificial-intelligence service to use humans to identify your humming! #
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25 month ago
Linkorama : The price of humans who'll spam blogs is falling to zero - "He would have been regarded locally as a fool if he hadn't tried to exploit [me]," he noted without rancour. Elsewhere this week, deliveries began of the hand-powered laptop, Nicholas Negroponte's computing gift to the developing world.
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30 month ago
Andy Baio : Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 - 2 cents a quote, with a 98.3% success rate [via]
kellan : Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 - Okay the sheep were cute, but this is interesting. #
deusx : ESV Bible Blog - Blog Archive Mechanical Turk Recap - "For this first foray, we decided to use Mechanical Turk to verify what we created ourselvesin other words, to verify an internal database."
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31 month ago
Andy Baio : The Sheep Market - 10,000 sheep drawings created by Amazon Mturk workers for $0.69/hour [via]
joshua : The Sheep Market - 10,000 sheep created through the mechanical turk. awesome
Nelson Minar : 10,000 sheep - Amazon MTurk art (via Waxy or Kottke, ya know)
Rod Begbie : The Sheep Market - 10,000 sheep, drawn by MTurk users, for $0.02 each. [via] #
jkottke : 10,000 sheep drawn by workers hired through Amazon's Mechanical Turk service - 10,000 sheep drawn by workers hired through Amazon's Mechanical Turk service. Average wage for the artists? $0.69 per hour. (via waxy) [via]
deusx : The Sheep Market - "10,000 sheep created by online workers"
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Wet Ware - The pay isn't great, but you will get to see what the next generation of Web/human interfaces will look like. And also get a feel of how to create the next generation of buzz.
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : Amazon Mechanical Turk - develop questions that can only be answered by humans, make money answering them
Matthew M. Boedicker : Amazon mechanical turk, make money for doing repetitive tasks that computers aren't good at
Rod Begbie : Amazon Mechanical Turk - Get paid for grunt-work that's too complex for computers to deal with. Awesome name, and further proof that Amazon is really competing with Google, not buy.com. [via] #
plasticbag : Does anyone know if it's possible to add HITs to Amazon Mechanical Turk if you're outside the US? - I'm really interested in what I could do with mturk, but it seems like you have to have a US bank account to use it at all, which is profoundly frustrating...
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