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Re: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

Pete Treadaway — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:26:23 -0000

I have just run a similar experiment on the MTurk. I wanted to see where Turkers came from, why they did it, how much they earned and if they enjoyed it. I got 101 comments on my blog - a real insight into MTurk I thought.

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Re: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

The China Drop Ship Guy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:48:01 -0000

I just ran my first MTurk project yesterday for some simple data mining - give it a website and have it grab all contact information. I gauge it saved me at least 5 hrs and a lot of brain power.

I even opened a dialogue with one of my Turkers, who was a nice guy.

I came here searching for creative ways in which to further benefit from the great service.

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Home and Office Decor Ideas — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:54:48 -0000

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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Has read with the pleasure, very interesting post, write still, good luck to you!

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agbiotec — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:02:59 -0000

Definitely Mturk could be used to harness collective intelligence, such as tagging web pages for semantics for example...

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:28:05 -0000

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.

Re: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

Danny — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:42:30 -0000

Club Seals and book baby sitter FTW! Some creative ideas and good humor, I like it.

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xxx — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:37:58 -0000

Andy at Waxy.org had another interesting one. "What you you look like and why do you Turk?" -- http://waxy.org/2008/11/the...

Jeremy

Re: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

floozyspeak — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:06:49 -0000

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. :)

Re: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

wyliemac — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:44:06 -0000

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.

Re: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

Ryan Wanger — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:54:32 -0000

So what did you do exactly? You asked Mechanical Turk: "pitch me your business ideas"? Pretty cool responses.

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Re: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

Harilaos Vasiliadis — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:17:28 -0000

MTurk sounds really interesting!
I would use it as a base app for quick tasks completion of start ups :)