Forum: mTurk & Amazon in the the Media

From reports on other sites, it seems like Amazon is no longer creating new Mturk worker accounts. There is no official reason stated just that...

Good article about microtasking and Mechanical Turk from a local alternative weekly East Bay Express. It would be nice if a turker wrote an article...

This was in our local newspaper this morning. Good quotes by Lilly Irani on behalf of the workers. Here is a link to the same article in another...

"Check out Sharon Chiarella's interview on AWS Report, a weekly program hosted by Jeff Barr featuring AWS leadership and the Customers who use AWS."...

I found this interesting. http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2012/06/20/work-at-home-myths/

I found this article today while researching Mturk. The article was posted by Samuel Bennett on Crowdsourcing.org. The article frequently referred to...

Amazon Cloud Goes Down Friday Night, Taking Netflix, Instagram And Pinterest With It (I like the "scary winds" quote :) )

I got this on my requester account this morning: (emphasis added) HITs created using the requester UI didn't default to Masters up to now,...

In one hit, unexpected results was shown in a game where the players became anonymous dictators. ...

Amazon may open brick and mortar stores to sell products. It appears to be an effort to sell the higher end products not just the Kindle and...

The roar of the crowd. Crowdsourcing is transforming the science of psychology Most of it is stuff that heavy survey takers already know or have...

A group of programmers posted a project on Kickstarter and began raising money. Unfortunately, the guy with the Amazon Payment account associated...

Tuesday, Amazon has released the Amazon Instant Video app for the Playstation 3. You can buy or rent streaming movies from Amazon with it. ...

I thought this sounded extremely familiar... http://consumerist.com/2012/05/how-my-ex-wife-is-unintentionally-keeping-me-away-from-my-money.html ...

The Justice Department Just Made Jeff Bezos Dictator-for-Life The article goes on to explain while this will probably lead to lower prices in...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-crowd-labor-20120609,0,4389661.story Includes a quote from Mechanical Turk Vice President Sharon Chiarella.

While this is not about mTurk or Amazon, I wonder if the growing number of online seniors (over 65) will have an effect on the workforce pool on...

Amazon will start collecting sales in New Jersey starting July 1, 2013 and in return will build two two distribution centers in New jersey that may...