This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
MS Word plugin which uses Mechanical Turk to crowdsource editing and proofreading inside the document you’re working on.
“Birthday greetings outsourced to Mechanical Turk.” Amazing. A friend of Hilary Mason couldn’t decide what to write to wish her a happy birthday… so he paid Mechanical Turkers to write for him.
The best use of Mechanical Turk so far: Paying people pennies to draw cats and supply cat stories.
Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill.
Combine Amazon’s various webservices to create a “hum a song into a microphone and find out what it is” system. Most cunning feature: Using the “Mechanical Turk” artificial-artificial-intelligence service to use humans to identify your humming!
Get paid for grunt-work that’s too complex for computers to deal with. Awesome name, and further proof that Amazon is really competing with Google, not buy.com.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.