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If you regularly have to deal with a lot of repetitive data entry or sorting, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with services like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The promise is appealing: you can hire workers to complete basic tasks for a relatively small amount of money. And, in theory, everyone wins. You get your tasks [...]
HoudiniAPI.com – Get Human Labor Fast
In: web resources
1 Jul 2011Self-defined as the magical human labor API, Houdini deserves a lot of praise for doing something very few sites actually let you do. You see, Houdini stands as an API that makes it extremely simple to integrate human labor from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (and other crowdsourced labor pools) straight into web apps. This is done [...]
Gigwalk wants to put your smartphone to work. On Wednesday the startup is launching its platform for on-demand, on-location task completion. Businesses can use Gigwalk to post simple projects that can be completed by anyone who has a smartphone. A project might, for instance, ask users to take photos of a restaurant’s menu and answer [...]
New App Translates Food Photos Into Calorie Counts
In: web resources
7 Apr 2011Calorie conscious eaters can put away their calculators and pull up their smartphone cameras. Meal Snap, a new app iPhone app by DailyBurn, tells users how many calories are in the food items they photograph using the app. Sound impossible? We thought so, too. But on a test run, the app [iTunes link] accurately identified [...]
Five profit-boosting techniques for affiliates
In: IT news
11 Feb 2011Being an affiliate can be extremely rewarding, but it’s often not easy. There’s a lot of competition, and depending on where you live, tax legisltation is a clear and present danger. As with any business, being a successful affiliate means being smart about how you manage and maximize the bottom line. Here are five techniques [...]
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