Archive for October, 2009

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Surveys and More

Mechanical Turk is a system for crowdsourcing small tasks. And it rocks, if you don’t like doing small tasks. Amazon developed the system in 2005 to crowdsource the job of categorizing its own products, mostly CDs. It’s been open for public use (in Beta form) ever since. I’m writing about it because mTurk has remained [...]