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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourced marketplace that allows people (turkers) to complete small tasks that computers cannot, such as transcribing an au... 
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Mechanical Turk lets you pay people small amounts to complete "microtasks". Now, academics are using it to make their research faster, cheaper and -- arguably -- more accurate.
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What is Mechanical Turk? Find out about one of the original crowdsourcing operations in this profile. Learn not only what it is but how to make money at MTurk.
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I recently read about a service Amazon provides called Mechanical Turk which intrigued me.
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Users signed up to Amazon’s 'crowdworking' marketplace Mechanical Turk say they're tired of being marketed as algorithms for cheap labor and have started a letter writing campaign asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to recognize them as "actual human beings [...] who deserve respect, fair treatment and open communication."
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This is a guest post from the wonderful Amy over at Transcriptress.com. Amy and I met on Twitter, realized we had a lot in common and have learned so much from each other! She’s funny and smart–and I suggest you check out her site.
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Talking about the positives and negatives about Amazon Mechanical Turk.
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The use of Mechanical Turk in research may generate misleading data and false information. Do we need to guard against such mechanical methodologies?
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India-based bitcoin exchange Unocoin partners with Purse.io to complete the cycle from Mechanical Turk to Indian rupees.
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RT @ipeirotis posted: Demographics of Mechanical Turk: Now Live! (April 2015 edition) http://t.co/bS46WPmwwx
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' Crowdsourcing User Studies With Mechanical Turk' job on Freelancer. Work on this job or post your own for free!
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A comprehensive article with FAQs about mTurk. I focus on how businesses and workers are using and benefiting from the marketplace.
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http://cred.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?doi=10.1044/cred-meas-tth-001/wHr_ub8Tvss Video created for the ASHA #CREdLibrary Tara McAllister Byun, New York University, talks about using Amazon's...
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Find out what a Mechanical Turk is and if it's a job for you. Thorough review with pros and cons. Many are making decent money doing small tasks each day.
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From
gizmodo
As accomplished as modern-day computers are, there are some very basic things even the smartest machines have yet to master: tough judgment calls, advanced image recognition, making goofy faces, conducting psychological surveys.
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"Turkers" are people who are essentially making their living by filling out questionnaires all day long, day after, month after month, year after year.
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