Your Man in India (YMII) is actually a service designed for Indians in the US to use. Brickworks is their task outsourcing business. They are not taking on ne

Your Man in India (YMII) is actually a service designed for Indians in the US to use. Brickworks is their task outsourcing business. They are not taking on new customers right now because of all the interest caused by 4 Hour Work Week. Get Friday is Brickworks' main competitor. They currently take about 2 weeks to respond to an inquiry (in broken English) and you then have to give them you CC# and commit to a monthly minimum and wait another 3 weeks before you can try the service. All reports I have seen have been very positive once the service starts, but I'm not holding my breath. Ask Sunday is a start up that was offering a month of free tasks (or 30 tasks total) for free with promotional code "beta". I use them for some business outsourcing stuff and have been quite good. I bet they are going to start getting overloaded with demand as well. At the end of the day, for non-code business outsourcing (research, online tasks, etc.) the services don't save you that much money (US temp agencies are ~$18/hr - these Indian services are around ~$15). And obviously the best type of tasks to outsource are repetitive homogeneous ones that don't require subjective decisions. I blogged a bit about some of these services here: http://blog.robwebb2k.com/2007/07/29/ask-sunday/ http://blog.robwebb2k.com/2007/07/29/ask-sunday/