View allAll Photos Tagged amazon
trying out www.mturk.com/mturk - it seems to have mostly spammy things to do but I found a couple of word matching exercises (apparently for a research project but perhaps spam?) and transcribed a short mp3 - an interview with one of the design team architects of the World Trade Center in New York. I made $3 (very low hourly rate!!) and transferred this to my amazon account - gift certificate balance so I can use it for another book purchase. this worked ok, I now have $3 to spend.
the site has an interesting history - tinyurl.com/39wel5 - though seems to have been overtaken by spammers now who have HITs for spammy content. the site also seems to be targeted towards American and Indian workers as only US bank accounts can be used, and people in India can have checks raised in Rupees. though for other countries you can transfer the balance to your amazon gift voucher.
the idea of Human Intelligent agents is interesting - they call it Artificial Artificial Intelligence. it's a type of crowdsourcing - but not as we know it ! it reminds me of a science fiction novel - perhaps one of Neal Stephenson's. similar to the rentacoder or yourmaninindia sites or even craigslist.
23/04/2009
too sad that i had to jailbreak him just to be able to change the screensaver pictures.
@amazon "this should not be necessary! this should be a standard feature!"
wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Screen_Saver_Hack_for_all...
Amazon Appstore Developer Summit, Tuesday, 4th October at CodeNode, London. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
A passenger boat makes its way along the Amazon River near Manaus, Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
2013 TAMU Applied Biodiversity Sciences Amazon Field School on the Tambopata River in the Peruvian Amazon