One of the Startup Weekend Columbus groups are doing a project based on Mechanical Turk. Was SpotWurk, now called Joe Metric. http://joemetric.com/ They even have some funding.
floozyspeak
· 1 year ago
Mechanical Turk has all kinds of uses. I like to think of it as an army in your pocket. At any time, any where you can tap the turks to tackle a task and.. if your price is right, you'll get results. There are limitations to what they can do, willing to do, and willing to lay out time wise for whatever tasks you pony up. And its important to reward them realistically for their efforts. You can go cheap but don't expect much. At the same time paying too much $$ opens the door for folks to exploit your wallet.
JoeMetric is a take on turk in a mobile context. There's some good market indicators to suggest that turk, and turk like concepts could do really well in the economic winter ahead. :)
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T
· 1 year ago
I ran Obama vs. McCain polls on Mturk during the recent presidential election. The mturk crowd ran decidedly left even back in early September. Whooda thunk it was such an accurate long term predictor.
agbiotec
· 1 year ago
Definitely Mturk could be used to harness collective intelligence, such as tagging web pages for semantics for example...
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· 1 year ago
Has read with the pleasure, very interesting post, write still, good luck to you!
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· 9 months ago
Mechnical Turk is actually a very good resource for ideas.. I got quite a few interesting and applicable ones in the past.
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I would use it as a base app for quick tasks completion of start ups :)
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JoeMetric is a take on turk in a mobile context. There's some good market indicators to suggest that turk, and turk like concepts could do really well in the economic winter ahead. :)
Jeremy