Anyone else participate in the Amazon Mechanical Turk program?
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
The Amazon Mechanical Turk, is a form of "crowdsourcing", it is a way for web/program developers or companies to submit jobs to a large pool of workers who yield manual results. So if there is something they are trying to automate which requires human interaction they can use the Amazon API to submit the job for completion. Examples could range from writing a product review for a website, making a phone call, doing product research or uploading needed information or content. I know with the state of the economy, recently this has proven successful as a source of income for those whom are computer/internet savvy.
I am in the process of reviewing the Amazon API as I believe we may implement this into an upcoming software development project I am working on, but just wanted to spark some conversation on the topic and see if anyone else knows about this? I have already made about $250.00 so far but I tend to go for the higher paying computer jobs, but you can also get jobs for a few cents that are pretty easy to complete. I was mostly doing it so I could spend the money I made on it for buying a new MacBook Pro laptop.
So what's your take on this, do you consider this a virtual sweatshop?
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
The Amazon Mechanical Turk, is a form of "crowdsourcing", it is a way for web/program developers or companies to submit jobs to a large pool of workers who yield manual results. So if there is something they are trying to automate which requires human interaction they can use the Amazon API to submit the job for completion. Examples could range from writing a product review for a website, making a phone call, doing product research or uploading needed information or content. I know with the state of the economy, recently this has proven successful as a source of income for those whom are computer/internet savvy.
I am in the process of reviewing the Amazon API as I believe we may implement this into an upcoming software development project I am working on, but just wanted to spark some conversation on the topic and see if anyone else knows about this? I have already made about $250.00 so far but I tend to go for the higher paying computer jobs, but you can also get jobs for a few cents that are pretty easy to complete. I was mostly doing it so I could spend the money I made on it for buying a new MacBook Pro laptop.
So what's your take on this, do you consider this a virtual sweatshop?
