Posts Tagged ‘mechanical turk

This year, a dark horse has entered into the Grammy race, an ever-changing, crowd-sourced, interactive music video featuring a musician who is no longer among the living: The Johnny Cash Project. Facing off against wildly popular adversaries, such as Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” (more than 300 million YouTube views), Cee-lo Green’s “F**k You” (32 million [...]

On all social media outlets, you’ll see bot spam, manual spam, and legit stuff. As for the spammy activities executed by humans, here is a hint where it comes from. Go to Source

In this article, we’ll talk about the challenges of writing concise and familiar copy for web application user interfaces.  We’ll illustrate, with a real case example, how tools like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk can help designers find a common language with their users. Words Matter A good user interface needs concise instructions. When we label interface [...]

Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Biz360, a social media monitoring, measurement and engagement platform. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @biz360, or find her musings on the company blog and her personal blog. Automated sentiment analysis has recently been the focus of an intense debate in the blogosphere. [...]

The sheer size of Apple’s app store makes it difficult for independent developers to stand out from the crowd. Some developers come up with creative concepts to get the word out, others rely on scamming and gaming different iTunes policies. Fortunately, Apple has decided to kick the scammers out of the app store. As first [...]


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