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After doing all those writing hits, do you have a book inside you now? Amazon has a fund to encourage more independent authors to publish on the...
Just saw this: Amazon to offer $10 gift cards for $5- CNN Money. Apparently this deal will be on Tuesday to promote AmazonLocal, which is their...
If you ever wanted to know the demographics of Mturk. There was a hit in 2010 that asked that very question. ...
New Study Confirms and Extends Earlier Finding Linking Socially-Conservative Value Judgments to Anti-Social Personality Traits ...
I just noticed this on the Mechanical Turk Blog. Here's what's available I think the UX (user experience) positions are the most...
Since we had to give Amazon Payments our SSN, this story is about the 1099-K that is new for 2011. It explains why we need to keep track of them. ...
A researcher has taken the time to calculate how many servers are being used for EC2. Mturk runs at the Virginia location. Link to the story:
http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/02/us-upper-classes-more-likely-lie-cheat-and-think-greed-good-study-finds
Work online. One of our most-asked questions: Is there legitimate work from home? Technically, yes. In fact, you're reading some right now: Every...
Mturk was used to improve predictive texting. ...
http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance/article-113857-11809-4-8-weird-ways-to-make-extra-money?ywaad=ad0035&nc
Receiving an update when one of your contacts updates their profile seems fairly basic to me but Amazon now has a patent on it. ...
Last year, Mturk started a public communications strategy that included a blog, twitter feed, facebook and even posting on the old version of this...
Not only we will have to deal with the gold hits in Mturk but soon we will have to deal with a mad AI for QC. I hope they don't name it Sky Net. ...
Have you ever wonder how Amazon can price some things that are just plain ridiculous? Things like a book "The Making of a Fly" for $2,198,177.95. ...
Amazon Prime has attracted fewer subscribers than estimated I'm surprised. I don't have the service, but after they added the streaming video,...
Apple, Suppliers Test Tablet With Smaller Screen It appears this was done in part because of the Amazon Fire (they mention Samsung also, but...
Amazon is creating Amazon Studios to create their own shows. The openings for the Amazon Studio staff first appeared on Friday. ...
The head of developer experiences for Windows Phone has left Microsoft to be Director of the Kindle Cross Platform team for Amazon. ...
Andrei Kashcha has create a way to visualize the Amazon books recommendations. Here the recommendations for the book 1984 by H.G. Wells. It also...
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