Amazon Mechanical Turk

Over the past few weeks I've been scouring the internet, looking for different ways to make a bit of extra cash online. I must say, I have been rather busy and found some quite interesting things on my travels around the World Wide Web. It feels like I haven't written a review for ages, so please forgive me if my review appears a bit out of practice. I want to share my experience of working for Amazon Mechanical Turk with you, I hope it's of some help or interest to you. Amazon Mechanical Turk I found out about this by accident really, this wasn't what I was researching at the time but found ... more

Amazon.com is now more than just a place to buy cheap books from, it seems. One of a suite of extra web services now offered by the internet giant, the Amazon Mechanical Turk was first launched in 2005 as a crowdsourcing marketplace - or to put it more bluntly, a place for people to post jobs they wanted doing, and for other people to do them in return for payment, a bit like a virtual job centre. In case you are wondering where the slightly unusual name of this service comes from, the Mechanical Turk is named after a famous 18th century hoax. The original Mechanical Turk was a chess-playing ... more