Forum: mTurk & Amazon in the the Media

I found this interesting, stats on MTurk workers by country: http://www.appappeal.com/maps/amazon-mechanical-turk Insight into setting up hits...

http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com/blog/2012/11/evaluating-performance-with-known-answers.html For us workers, you will need to keep this in...

The article is 4 months old and worth a read if some missed it, I wasn't Turking back then. I searched the forum before posting and didn't see it...

Here's an interesting radio article on Amazon's long term goals. Eventually they want to do everything. Sell stuff, produce content, issue loans,...

Recently, a Norwegian woman received an email notifying her that Amazon was closing her account. They erased all of the Kindle books that she had...

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/editorial/crowdsource-raises-125-million-in-series-a-funding/20554

Just found this on my homepage. It's just a passing mention, but the title of the article caught my eye. ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/10/amazon-hollywood-crowdsourcing-idUSL1E8L58BP20121010 It worked so well for the Syfy channel in...

Amazon now has over 50 delivery lockers in use in the US and is busy adding more. ...

Tips for Academic Requesters on Mturk

CrowdFlower Reports Revenue increased 300% in the last year. ...

Mturk was used for creating some meal plans. Read in the blog post the importance of creating qualifications to limit scammers. Somebody needs to...

http://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/publication/crowddb-answering-queries-with-crowdsourcing/ CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing ...

How to Destroy Your Mturk Requester Reputation AND Your Business Reputation at the Same Time ...

The reporter who was here a while back has posted her article on AlterNet: ...

Hi, just found this article. It's about how people may be better at performing certain HITS, but software (QURK) can be better at presenting tasks....

Ran across this tonight and just HAD to post it! Look at the 6th paragraph up from the bottom, or search for "CrowdFlower" in the page. ...

I found out about this on the MTurk blog. Twitter has created an application called Clockwork Raven. I think this has the potential to be a...

http://mashable.com/2012/08/30/amazon-double-sided-kindle/ Now, you'll be able to read your eBook, while playing Angry Birds, while filming...