mturk

It's true that not many people have made even $1,000 on mturk, but the crazy part is that according to this, mturk is the primary source of income for something like 25% of its workers!

Work and the Internet Luis von Ahn 2010

To my amazement, though, Severin told me that even more of the jobs on mturk today are Web 2.0 companies paying people to enter content on their site or list their site on aggregators that can drive traffic to them.

Archive 2009-01-01 Luis von Ahn 2009

Many of the jobs on mturk are human computation tasks so I've been following it since its release in 2005.

Web 2.0 + Mturk = Awesome Luis von Ahn 2009

Many of the jobs on mturk are human computation tasks so I've been following it since its release in 2005.

Archive 2009-01-01 Luis von Ahn 2009

For example, below are some of the tasks that come up on the queries "web site" (top) and "review" (bottom): ...and now, it seems that Belkin is paying people to write good reviews about their products on mturk.

Web 2.0 + Mturk = Awesome Luis von Ahn 2009

For example, below are some of the tasks that come up on the queries "web site" (top) and "review" (bottom): ...and now, it seems that Belkin is paying people to write good reviews about their products on mturk.

Archive 2009-01-01 Luis von Ahn 2009

To my amazement, though, Severin told me that even more of the jobs on mturk today are Web 2.0 companies paying people to enter content on their site or list their site on aggregators that can drive traffic to them.

Web 2.0 + Mturk = Awesome Luis von Ahn 2009

Just go to www. mturk.com and follow the directions to help look for Steve Fossett.

CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2007 2007

This allows anyone to offer tasks to the mturk masses.

Cheap Human Capital With Amazon’s Mechanical Turk | Letter Never Sent 2006

Send it to mturk and have your survey completed for $.01 a head.

Cheap Human Capital With Amazon’s Mechanical Turk | Letter Never Sent 2006