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| 06.09.2026 | Рынок «лимонов» в мире данных: почему современные исследования теряют контакт с реальностью | Размышления, вдохновленные статьей Марка Хау «Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice‑oriented framework for using large language model‑powered chatbots» (Hau, 2025)
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| 01.09.2026 | AI Claims a Giant: Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk, Reshaping Gig Work | Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk. The groundbreaking crowdsourced labor platform, launched in 2005, will cease operations on September 30. This marks a significant shift in the gig economy. Artificial intelligence advancements rendered man... |
| 28.08.2026 | Amazon to close Mechanical Turk amid rise of AI | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Alexis Weisend, The Seattle Times
Amazon announced Tuesday it will shutter Mechanical Turk, the 21-year-old crowdsourced labor market platform founder Jeff Bezos once called “artificial artifici... |
| 26.08.2026 | Amazon is shutting down a go-to option for gig workers. It's the latest casualty of AI growth. | Amazon is closing a platform that became a staple for some gig workers.
The company will shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, according to a message posted on the crowdsourced work platform's website on Tuesday.
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| 26.08.2026 | Amazon service Bezos once called ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ is shutting down | Amazon announced it’s shuttering Mechanical Turk, a platform that matches workers with small digital tasks, on Sept. 30.
The platform launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for c... |
| 26.08.2026 | Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years as AI reshapes crowdsourced work | Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, ending a 21-year experiment in crowdsourced digital labor that once put humans behind tasks computers could not handle. The timing carries a certain irony: artificial intelligence is getting better a... |
| 26.08.2026 | Amazon Mechanical Turk Will Close September 30, Shutting Down SageMaker Ground Truth Too | By Jackie Manning
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| 08.04.2026 | How to Make Money Online Fast in 2026: Methods That Actually Work | Share
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Making money online in 2026 is more accessible than it has ever been, but most of the advice floating around the internet is either outdated, v... |
| 09.03.2026 | The Rise of AI-Augmented Remote Work: How Fthen Is Redefining the Global Workforce | Share
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| 29.09.2025 | Сильный ИИ как фантазия. Теорема Теслера | В 1841 году Чарльз Маккей опубликовал сборник исторических очерков «Наиболее распространённые заблуждения и безумства толпы». Сборник претерпел десятки переизданий и издаётся до сих пор.
Ничто не меняется: как раньше мужчины отращивали модн... |
| 22.08.2025 | OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collabora... |
| 30.10.2024 | Исследование: люди оказались способнее к творчеству по сравнению с текущими ИИ-моделями | Написанные людьми рассказы по-прежнему более захватывающие, чем сгенерированные искусственным интеллектом, демонстрирует работа научной сотрудницы Калифорнийского университета в Беркли Нины Бегуш. Она сравнила сотни историй людей с творчест... |
| 29.08.2024 | The Dawn of 3D Generation: Nvidia's XCube Revolutionizes Digital Landscapes | In the realm of technology, innovation is the lifeblood. It fuels progress and shapes the future. Nvidia’s latest creation, XCube, is a testament to this relentless drive. This groundbreaking model for generating 3D objects is not just a st... |
| 23.08.2024 | Новая модель от Nvidia для генерации 3D объектов | В этой статье будут встречаться термины, которые я намеренно не перевожу из-за того, что перевод либо звучит ужасно, либо не отражает сути термина.
В быстро развивающемся мире и генеративных моделей появляются всё новые и новые модальности.... |
| 25.06.2024 | 7 Latest Trends around AI Agents by Artur Kurasiński | The post was originally published in Polish on Artur’s LinkedIn profile. Artur kindly agreed that we repost what we think is of great value to our readers. Specialization. In the coming months, we will see a shift towards more specialized A... |
| 18.05.2024 | The Importance of Data Accuracy in Online Surveys and Forms | Share
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| 24.04.2024 | Роботы наступают. И это хорошо | В этом отрывке из новой книги «Сердце и чип: Наше светлое будущее вместе с роботами» (“The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots”) директор Лаборатории компьютерных наук и искусственного интеллекта при MIT (CSAIL) Даниэла Рус ра... |
| 04.04.2024 | Размышления о высококачественных данных, собранных людьми
Эксперты-классификаторы ↔ качество данных
Качество данных ↔ обучение модели
Источники... | Высококачественные данные — это «топливо» для современных моделей глубокого обучения. Большая часть данных, размеченных под конкретные задачи, создается живыми людьми — аннотаторами, которые занимаются классификацией или проводят RLHF-разме... |
| 18.09.2023 | Заключенные в Финляндии тренируют ИИ. Скоро такое может начаться и в других странах | В статье о румбах я как-то писал, что ИИ-стартапы из США и Европы находят дешевых сотрудников из Венесуэлы, Филиппин и стран Африки, чтобы те кликали по картинкам и тренировали ИИ для машин. Это так называемые «плантации XXI века»: люди из ... |
| 26.07.2023 | Как создавать качественные ML-системы. Часть 2: приручаем хаос | Команда VK Cloud перевела вторую статью из серии о создании ML-систем. Первую читайте по ссылке. Здесь поговорим о Data-centric ИИ, данных для обучения, разметке и очистке, синтетических данных и еще немного о Data Engineering и ETL.
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| 18.06.2023 | We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work | A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service appear to have “cheated” when performing a particular task assigned to them, as they us... |
| 13.04.2023 | Workforce ecosystems and AI | Companies increasingly rely on an extended workforce (e.g., contractors, gig workers, professional service firms, complementor organizations, and technologies such as algorithmic management and artificial intelligence) to achieve strategic ... |
| 03.03.2023 | Bag of tricks для разметки текстовых данных: Часть 1. Четыре способа размечать меньше | Привет! Меня зовут Ирина Кротова, я NLP-исследователь из компании MTS AI. Мы не понаслышке знаем, что сбор и разметка данных часто становятся “бутылочным горлышком" в проектах, связанных с машинным обучением. У нас в компании есть пост... |
| 11.12.2022 | Турецкий гамбит для механического пианино | В 18 веке человечество, пожалуй, впервые начало ощущать себя «царем природы». Один за другим сдавались перед пытливыми умами законы физики, химии и биологии, покорялись водные и воздушные стихии. Всем казалось, что вот еще небольшой рывок —... |
| 25.07.2022 | Разметка данных в машинном обучении: процесс, разновидности и рекомендации | Когда люди слышат про искусственный интеллект, глубокое обучение и машинное обучение, многие представляют роботов из фильмов, интеллект которых сравним или даже превосходит интеллект человека. Другие считают, что такие машины просто потребл... |
| 23.02.2022 | For Workers In Africa, The Digital Economy Isn’t All It’s Made Out To Be | Staff members of an e-commerce company in Rwanda. Xinhua/Wang Teng via Getty Images
Today more than half of the world’s population is connected to the internet. In Africa, there are over 590 million internet users and over 800 million mobil... |
| 23.02.2022 | For Workers In Africa, The Digital Economy Isn’t All It’s Made Out To Be | Staff members of an e-commerce company in Rwanda. Xinhua/Wang Teng via Getty Images |
| 17.01.2022 | Разметка данных для машинного обучения: обзор рынка, методики и компании | Большая доля data science и машинного обучения зависит от чистых и корректных источников данных, поэтому неудивительно, что скорость роста рынка разметки данных продолжает увеличиваться. В этой статье мы расскажем о многих крупных игроках о... |
| 29.10.2021 | Микрозанятость: неоднозначный тренд, созданный масштабной автоматизацией | Когда покупатели в лондонском районе Хакни делают покупки в новом магазине Amazon Fresh, они больше не платят оператору кассы, а просто выходят со своими товарами. Amazon описывает это как потребительский опыт без малейших усилий. Рост числ... |
| 30.09.2021 | Сравниваем качество SaaS-систем в задаче распознавания интентов | Наши клиенты часто спрашивают, какие технологии машинного обучения лучше подходят для решения их задач.
Наиболее убедительный аргумент в пользу тех или иных решений — обыкновенные цифры. Конкретные метрики, которые отражают качество работы ... |
| 26.04.2021 | Towards MLOps: technical capabilities of a machine learning platform | The choice of the technology and tool that delivers this functionality is crucial, as it's a dependency of the ML pipeline. Traditionally, hadoop-based data lakes would have a workflow manager like Oozie or Azkaban to perform such activitie... |
| 08.02.2021 | 7 formas realistas de ganar dinero en línea | February 8, 2021 15+ min read
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| 04.10.2020 | White Demographic Anxiety Fuels Support for Torture of Terrorism Suspects | Editor’s Note: The changing position of whites in America has profound political implications and played an important role in the rise of President Trump. In a survey experiment, James Piazza of The Pennsylvania State University examines th... |
| 29.03.2020 | Коллективная онлайн-удалёнка: что и где делать ради общего блага в сети | Привет! В эфире команда разработчиков First Line Software. Собрали список полезных занятий, которые можно делать не отрываясь от экрана, не выходя из комнаты и не нарушая правила карантина.
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| 07.11.2019 | Applause targets AI bias by sourcing training data at scale | One of the biggest challenges — and there are many — facing the artificial intelligence (AI) realm today is inherent biases created by limited training data. Researchers have already demonstrated how Amazon’s facial analysis software, for e... |
| 07.11.2019 | Applause targets AI bias by sourcing training data at scale | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One of the biggest challenges — and there are many — facing the artificial intelligence (AI) realm today is inherent biases created by ... |
| 28.07.2019 | Last-mile training and the future of work in an expanding gig economy | Ryan Craig Contributor
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| 25.06.2019 | Identifying A Fake Picture Online Is Harder Than You Might Think | If you know how photo editing works, you might have a leg up at spotting fakes. Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com |
| 25.06.2019 | Identifying A Fake Picture Online Is Harder Than You Might Think | If you know how photo editing works, you might have a leg up at spotting fakes. Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com
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It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two... |
| 05.05.2019 | Is Freelancing The Future Of Employment? | Is freelancing the future of employment? Pixabay, CC BY-SA
BY Anthony Hussenot, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS)
Today, freelancers represent 35% of the United States workforce. In the European Union, the rate is 16.1%. Both figures... |
| 06.12.2018 | Alexa Wants You to Answer Questions | Alexa Wants You to Answer Questions
Maddie Iribarren on December 6, 2018 at 5:12 pm
Amazon’s new Alexa Answers program solicits select Alexa users to answer questions posed by other users that Alexa cannot already answer.
Alexa users that r... |
| 23.07.2018 | Artificial intelligence startup DefinedCrowd raises more cash | DefinedCrowd CEO Daniela Braga. (Photo via DefinedCrowd)
DefinedCrowd is raising more investment for its artificial intelligence training platform used by Fortune 500 enterprises across the world.
The Seattle-area startup has reeled in $10.... |
| 27.11.2017 | Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Turkers, calls it a feature | Enlarge / Would you let this guy handle your benefit and business expenses? reader comments 46 with 28 posters participating
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| 13.11.2017 | How Deep Learning Will Alter the Retail Space | Artificial Intelligence has been a hot word across all industries lately. Think all the fuss around self-driving cars, Google’s updated Assistant and the general talks of how conversational interfaces are the future of tech.
Around 54 perce... |
| 03.11.2017 | If You Want to Get Funded on Kickstarter, Research Says to Avoid These Tactics | November 3, 2017 6 min read
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On the surface, the growth of crowdfunding has been phenomenal. Since its inception in 2009, projects listed on Kickstarter have raised $3.3 billion.... |
| 30.10.2017 | Meet Earn.com: 21 Rebrands Social Network In Shift Away from Bitcoin | 21 Inc, once a maker of bitcoin mining hardware, is rebranding to emphasize its new focus on using cryptocurrency to power a social network.
Effective today, the startup has changed its name to Earn.com to drive home the message users can g... |
| 19.07.2017 | Clara Labs nabs $7M Series A as it positions its AI assistant to meet the needs of enterprise teams | Clara Labs, creator of the Clara AI assistant, is announcing a $7 million Series A this morning led by Basis Set Ventures. Slack Fund also joined in the round, alongside existing investors Sequoia and First Round. The startup will be lookin... |
| 15.05.2017 | Facebook’s ParlAI is where researchers will push the boundaries of conversational AI | To most of us, communication is a single task. But in reality, it’s not and if you’re a machine trying to replicate dialog, you need to be good at lots of tasks like answering questions, completing sentences and even having small talk. It’s... |
| 03.05.2017 | Pay transparency started with Whole Foods in the 80s, but it's found new life with tech companies who want to woo talent and improve morale | Flickr/kenji ross
It's always been taboo to discuss salaries at work.
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| 17.03.2017 | Psychology turns to online crowdsourcing to study the mind, but it’s not without its pitfalls | You may not know this, but a great deal of our data about the human mind is based on a relatively small but intensively studied population: first-year undergraduate university students.
There has long been concern about the over-reliance on... |
| 15.02.2017 | 25 Money-Making Ideas You Can Leverage Online | Image: Shutterstock |
| 29.01.2017 | The sound of impending failure | Sound is an incredibly valuable means of communicating information. Most motorists are familiar with the alarming noise of a slipping belt drive. My grandfather could diagnose issues with the brakes on heavy rail cars with his ears. And man... |
| 04.09.2016 | Understanding the economy of the crowd | Philip Soffer Contributor
Philip Soffer is the CEO of test IO.
When you think about crowdsourced work, you probably think about Mechanical Turk and, maybe, Uber. On the one hand, an anonymous platform where people feel like mechanical parts... |
| 31.08.2016 | Google запустила краудсорс-приложение, чтобы улучшить качество сервисов | Отдел новостей 31 августа 2016, 10:30 Google запустила краудсорс-приложение, чтобы улучшить качество сервисов
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| 18.07.2016 | 6 lessons from building my own chatbot | Bots have captured the business public’s eye. Facebook opened up its Messenger platform to bots in April, and, since then, over 11,000 bots have reportedly been published.
To understand the promise of the bot platform better, I decided to w... |
| 11.07.2016 | Fifty Percent of Mechanical Turk Workers Have College Degrees, Study Finds | Since 2005, researchers and businesses have increasingly relied on Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Using the online marketplace owned by Amazon, companies can request for individuals to complete bite-sized pieces of work, called Human Intelligence... |
| 04.04.2016 | An insider’s handbook for IoT startups | Ryan Margoles Contributor
Ryan Margoles is the co-founder and CTO of Notion.
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Tips are everywhere. There’s an abundance of generic advice available for how to build teams ... |
| 29.02.2016 | RocketClub Lets Early Adopters Earn A Financial Stake In Startups | When a startup manages a successful exit, its earliest adopters usually don’t get much in return except for bragging rights. RocketClub wants to change that.
The platform helps young tech companies recruit users who are willing to complete ... |
| 29.11.2015 | 3 Simple Growth Hacking Strategies to Try Now | You’ve worked day and nights on your project. You know everything about your ideal client. You’ve mapped out your competitors and created a product that is better, cheaper and more unique. In fact, you know your product is pure awesomness (... |
| 09.09.2015 | 60% of martech companies don’t list pricing publicly | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
More than half of all the martech vendors represe... |
| 09.09.2015 | 60% of martech companies don’t list pricing publicly | More than half of all the martech vendors represented on Scott Brinker’s mind-blowing 43-category, 1,876-company marketing technology landscape do not list their pricing publicly, according to an RJMetrics study.
Why? Apparently the softwar... |
| 25.08.2015 | Spare5 Raises $10M to Gather More Human Insights for the Internet | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle startup Spare5 is pairing human and machine intelligence to give businesses insight into things like what photo will best sell a vacation rental property. The company’... |
| 25.08.2015 | Spare5 raises $10M to help smartphone owners make money in their free time | Spare5 seems to have struck a chord with its platform that pays people to spend their spare time performing short tasks on a smartphone.
Founded less than a year ago, the Seattle-based startup today announced a $10 million Series A round le... |
| 25.08.2015 | “Desksourcing” Is A New Labor Market Concept In The Mobile-First World | Spencer Lazar Contributor
Spencer Lazar is a partner at General Catalyst.
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| 18.08.2015 | Protecting the rights of the digital workforce in the ‘gig’ economy | Spurred by advances in digital technology, an on-demand workforce has been growing steadily for well over a decade, creating a new “gig” economy. This is an economy in which more and more people either choose to, or are forced to, earn thei... |
| 15.05.2015 | Forget calorie counting, this food tracking app works with text messages | Tracking what you eat is a pain, but it’s good to do. Logging makes a person more conscious of what they’re eating. Which, in turn, makes their choices a bit more responsible. If you’re watching your weight, keeping a record is a great plac... |
| 10.02.2015 | Rainforest Raises $4M To Build Scalable QA | Quality assurance testing is a problem that can quickly escalate beyond the resources of startups and often requires entire divisions at larger companies. It’s increasingly easy to build apps with more functionality, powered by more sources... |
| 21.12.2014 | Stellar's Joyce Kim Talks the Launch, the Fork and the Future | stellarlogofeat
Backed by mainstream payments technology startup Stripe, decentralized payment network Stellar provides a vision for how digital currency could solve real problems for people with restricted financial access.
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| 07.12.2014 | Make money in your free time: Spare5 raises $3.25M from Madrona, Foundry, NEA for on-demand work platform | The Spare5 founding team: Loren Bast, Patrick O’Donnell, Matt Bencke, Daryn Nakhuda, and Matt Shobe.
As a veteran entrepreneur and managing director of Madrona Venture Group, Greg Gottesman has seen his share of successful — and not so succ... |
| 03.11.2014 | 3 standouts from the #NYMusicTech meetup at Livestream Public | The New York Music Tech Meetup moved its most recent gathering out to Livestream Public in Bushwick last Wednesday night.
Featuring presentations from five different startups, with sponsorships from MailChimp, Livestream and Audiokite, the ... |
| 28.07.2014 | How to Build a Digital Reputation When You Have No Time | July 28, 2014 3 min read
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As entrepreneurs, we know the importance of building a strong digital reputation. These days, the Google search result for your name is equivalent to yo... |
| 28.02.2014 | Study Shockingly Suggests Internet Trolls May Not Be Very Nice Or Particularly Mentally Healthy In Real Life | A new study from the University of Manitoba has shockingly claimed to have found that the Internet trolls we all know or love so well may not be very nice — or particularly mentally healthy — individuals in real life. The study tried to exp... |
| 17.02.2014 | A Networking Protocol For Labor | The core advancement of the Internet was the capability to move information very quickly across a decentralized network of nodes. That advancement was predicated on the development of protocols like HTTP, SMTP and Bitcoin that codified how ... |
| 15.08.2013 | Smart Scaling: What you need to know before you outsource | This post is part of a series brought to you by TriNet. VentureBeat is collaborating with TriNet to discuss smart scaling for growing businesses and best practices for managing growth. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining edi... |
| 08.01.2013 | Watch Out CNN: New Twitter Search Capabilities Will Rule Breaking News | Twitter Tuesday announced new search capabilities that give it the upper hand as a breaking news destination over basically every other news organization on the planet, from newspapers to cable networks to websites and everything in between... |
| 09.09.2012 | The Future of Amazon: Ambitious, Diverse, And Expansive | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah (@semil) is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners
In less than 20 years, the feats accomplished by Seattle’s Amazon are simply astounding and, curiously, often taken for granted. It is the world’s largest online ret... |
| 15.08.2012 | How to Crowdsource Without Being a Jerk – Or an Idiot | In the six years since Jeff Howe coined the term ‘crowdsourcing’ in Wired Magazine, the phenomenon has grown into several distinct, maturing industries that give businesses and workers almost limitless flexibility. But crowdsourcing also si... |
| 21.05.2012 | Amazon Streamlines Mechanical Turk With Automatic Categorization App | The idea behind Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is pretty simple – break programming work down into bite-sized chunks, and put it in front of a large workforce that can do the work quickly and cheaply. Part of the challenge of that is making it ea... |
| 08.05.2012 | Dylan’s Desk: How Mechanical Turk can help you find your next startup idea | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Mechanical Turk is Amazon’s army of pieceworkers,... |
| 17.04.2012 | Crowd computing taps artificial intelligence to revolutionize the power of our collective brains | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The two hundred people packed into a small screen... |
| 17.04.2012 | Crowd computing taps artificial intelligence to revolutionize the power of our collective brains | The two hundred people packed into a small screening room in Midtown Manhattan on a recent Tuesday night made quite a throng. Engineers, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs sipped Sam Adams and nibbled bits from a fruit plate. They were ... |
| 17.04.2012 | Solving College With Big Data | College is stuck in the past, and tech is always trying to tow it out of the mud. The trick is finding a solution that provides more access to higher education, improves the learning experience, and enables future improvement, instead of mi... |
| 01.01.2012 | The Internet Is People | There’s always been a tension on the Internet between humans and algorithms. In the early days, Yahoo was a human-curated index, remember? But humans couldn’t keep up, and the algorithms took over. Today, the human factor is rising in impor... |
| 02.11.2011 | Humanoid puts human brainpower to work in the cloud | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Humanoid is today launching the world’s first hum... |
| 02.11.2011 | Humanoid puts human brainpower to work in the cloud | Humanoid is today launching the world’s first human brain-powered API for developers and programmers “that actually works.”
With Humanoid developers can harness the strength of crowd-sourcing and get accurate results, not currently availabl... |
| 30.09.2011 | Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Jobs are the single biggest political issue of the day in the U.S., and rightly so. As of August, the official unemployment rate in the United States stood at 9.1 percent. Tha... |
| 29.08.2011 | MobileWorks turns human workers into a computer program | You’ve probably heard of the term “crowdsourcing” before, and you might even have seen or used Amazon’s successful attempt at monetizing this newfangled concept through Mechanical Turk — but both of these approaches, despite their power, ar... |
| 18.04.2011 | Walmart Ventures Into The Social Media Space With Acquisition Of Kosmix | Walmart this morning said it is buying Mountain View-based Kosmix, a heavily funded social media technology provider that has built a platform that enables users to filter and organize content in social networks, in order to connect people ... |
| 05.04.2011 | Too Lazy To Count Calories? Now You Can Just Take A Picture Of Your Meal | Wow. If this app had been pitched to us on the 1st, I would have been sure it was an April Fool’s joke. Coming in a few days later, however, it seems almost genius.
Given that my job of sitting in front of a computer and blasting out gadget... |
| 09.01.2011 | How Not To Be Influential? Quora Spam On Mechanical Turk | There’s has been much discussion in the past couple of days about how Quora can handle its recent explosive growth, avoid becoming a Yahoo Answers (i.e. full of nonsense and spam) and scale with grace.
As further evidence of a growing succe... |
| 20.12.2010 | Using Mechanical Turk For Your Startup | A recent report found that up to 40% of new work requests on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk are spam. It’s not the first time that there have been reports that the marketplace for micro-tasks has been used to employ folks for spam or fraud, or to... |
| 17.12.2010 | 40% of New Mechanical Turkers’ Work Requests Are Now For Spamming – What a Lost Opportunity! | What if you were given incredible powers but had such a limited imagination that you only used them to pollute the internet with spam? That’s what’s happening to the powerful distributed labor marketplace of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, where ... |
| 17.11.2010 | Amazon.com Launches Movie Studio | The world’s largest Internet retailer Amazon.com is known for many things besides shopping – Kindle eBook readers, for example, or its cloud computing infrastructure known as Amazon Web Services – but Amazon as a movie studio? That one seem... |
| 07.09.2010 | SpeakerText Automates And Crowdsources Video Transcripts (100 Beta Invites) | One of the big problems with video on the Web is that other than the title, description and some meta tags, it is mostly invisible to Google and other search engines. One way to make video more SEO-friendly is to add transcriptions, but tha... |
| 05.09.2010 | Using a Virtual Personal Assistant for Your Startup | ReadWriteWeb Co-Editor Marshall Kirkpatrick recently extolled the virtues of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for “rocking conference blogging.” He’s not the only person who’s seeing some real benefits from outsourcing small tasks to the service, a... |
| 13.08.2010 | CloudCrowd Raises $5.1 Million To Outsource Labor To The Cloud | Labor as a service startup CloudCrowd has just raised $5.1 million in funding, according to an recent SEC filing. We’ve confirmed the funding with the startup, which had previously raised $1.5 million in seed funding. This recent round of f... |
| 13.07.2010 | Inside CloudCrowd: Betting On Credibility [Video] | As one of the founders of the original Napster and CloudMark (an anti-spam service), Jordan Ritter, has always been fascinated by the idea of combining the power of the cloud and the potential of human capital. Last April, he met up with Al... |
| 01.06.2010 | Can CrowdFlower become a Thunder Lizard? | Super angel Mike Maples is our guest host analyzing the labor crowdsourcing startup
For many years, companies have looked overseas for "cheap" labor. Today, that labor can be next door, or anywhere in the country or around the wor... |
| 13.05.2010 | The lazy CEO’s 10-step guide to crowdsourcing every business task | Lukas Biewald (pictured left) is cofounder and chief executive of CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses crowdsource small tasks. Vaughn Hester (pictured below) is an account manager/analyst at CrowdFlower.
Whether you are starting a ... |
| 04.03.2010 | Feeding Amazon’s Cloud of Workers with Virtual Peas | Crowdsourcing may be stretching the geo-political landscape much the same way that cloud computing is redefining the data center. In short, nothing is safe and yet everything has the promise of being better.
Companies, industries, and econo... |