Oct 5, 04:21 pm: Have you used Mechanical Turk?

I’m interested in ways that people can outsource work (things like translations or doing market research) and the ways that nonprofits can get questions answered. To that end, I’m interested in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. It’s artificial artificial intelligence. People put in a question or task, provide some value (in dollars to it) and then others respond to the need. There’s more to it than that but that’s the basics.

This is more than social search — it’s applying a product commerce model to services. Have you ever used it rather than finding an individual to contract with or doing work yourself? If so, I’d love to hear about it.

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Marnie Webb  |