Human Powered Web Services?

Posted by Eric Stewart Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:56:00 GMT

Have you seen this yet? Amazon has opened a beta of it’s Amazon Mechanical Turk, a web services API ultimately powered by humans.

Apparently the web service API let’s you post a HIT ( or Human Intelligence Task) that Amazon will then offer up for people to perform for monetary compensation. It is based on the believe that there are many tasks that can just be performed better and faster by a human.

I found the link via someone (forgot who now, sorry) that though it was a joke and was correcting their earlier post.

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