/ writing/ 2006-08-25

Meat-Based Web Services

Turk Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is one of the most interesting new business models this year. The concept of a task-completion marketplace is not too innovative, but their model of qualifications and exposure of web services certainly piques my interest. Only time will tell if they can fill their chessboard with enough Schlumbergers to keep playing.

Posted during week 1694 (August 2006)
Related pages:
  • 2006-12-05-social-data-mining
  • Social Turing Tests
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