Comments on: Using Mechanical Turk For Ideas

By: Pete Treadaway

Pete Treadaway — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:26:23 +0000

I have just run a similar experiment on the MTurk. I wanted to see where Turkers came from, why they did it, how much they earned and if they enjoyed it. I got 101 comments on my blog – a real insight into MTurk I thought.

http://www.interdirect.co.uk/blogs/Interdirect_...

By: The China Drop Ship Guy

The China Drop Ship Guy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:48:01 +0000

I just ran my first MTurk project yesterday for some simple data mining – give it a website and have it grab all contact information. I gauge it saved me at least 5 hrs and a lot of brain power.

I even opened a dialogue with one of my Turkers, who was a nice guy.

I came here searching for creative ways in which to further benefit from the great service.

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Home Office Decor Ideas — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:54:48 +0000

Mechnical Turk is actually a very good resource for ideas.. I got quite a few interesting and applicable ones in the past.

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By: agbiotec

agbiotec — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:02:59 +0000

Definitely Mturk could be used to harness collective intelligence, such as tagging web pages for semantics for example…

By: T

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:28:05 +0000

I ran Obama vs. McCain polls on Mturk during the recent presidential election. The mturk crowd ran decidedly left even back in early September. Whooda thunk it was such an accurate long term predictor.

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:42:30 +0000

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By: Jeremy Tanner

Jeremy Tanner — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:37:58 +0000

Andy at Waxy.org had another interesting one. “What you you look like and why do you Turk?” — http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical...

Jeremy

By: koovus

koovus — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:06:49 +0000

Mechanical Turk has all kinds of uses. I like to think of it as an army in your pocket. At any time, any where you can tap the turks to tackle a task and.. if your price is right, you'll get results. There are limitations to what they can do, willing to do, and willing to lay out time wise for whatever tasks you pony up. And its important to reward them realistically for their efforts. You can go cheap but don't expect much. At the same time paying too much $$ opens the door for folks to exploit your wallet.

JoeMetric is a take on turk in a mobile context. There's some good market indicators to suggest that turk, and turk like concepts could do really well in the economic winter ahead.