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It's unbelievable that no one has swooped in to crush MTurk given how little Amazon has done to develop it since 2005(!)
by staunch 16y ago
It's unbelievable that no one has swooped in to crush MTurk given how little Amazon has done to develop it since 2005(!)
- aresant 16y agoI think this is one of those examples where nobody's rushing in because no matter how you slice it, the product is just not that useful. I've used it a few times and because the eco system is truly about hiring dirt, dirt cheap labor you kind of get what you pay for. Beyond that the revenue model sucks - the concept of running millions of micro-transactions and having a little piece of all the action is compelling, but again because the product use is so limited it's difficult to make signifigant revenue.
- iwwr 16y agoLast I checked, MTurk still accepted only US credit cards. This puts a dent in the potential size of the ecosystem. If the purpose is dirt-cheap labor, they should open up the door to markets where $cents matter.
- thetable 16y agoI'm pretty sure I recently used a non-US credit card to pay for MTurk. They require you live in the US, but they don't seem to verify that.
- iwwr 16y agoThey verify for valid zip codes and they prune false addresses from time to time. You have to lie to Amazon, or know someone in the US.
- eru 16y agoYou can work from everywhere. You just have to have a US credit card to pay somebody.
- xlorm 16y agoIt seems like going through CrowdFlower could help a lot. Has anyone used it? I guess it worked for the author. At my last job I was involved in a project where we were going to use CrowdFlower, but it ended up being canceled. I was always curious about how good their results are.
- herdrick 16y agoMarket size. People speculate it's only worth $1M a year to Amazon. But what could it be if it were better done?
- klous 16y agoA worldwide crowdsource platform for the workers who only have access to cell phones is txteagle http://txteagle.com/ http://txteagle.com/ and article written on them: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=21983 http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...