Archive for February, 2006

An Internet-sized Workforce

Published by Ted February 14th, 2006

Amazon’s new Mechanical Turk gives your company the ability to temporarily hire thousands of workers to quickly solve your tedious chores.
How does it work?
Imagine your company has 10,000 photographs of Alaskan landscapes. You need to find the 2,000+ that captured the Alaskan Pipeline. What would it take for one of your employees to go […]

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