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Fri 07 Jul 2009Harnessing power of the people online and for free
WIRED:Crowdsourcing can be an effective means of getting labour-intensive work done online if the motivation is not money, writes QUINN NORTON
CROWDSOURCING, letting an anonymous group of people online do work that’s expensive in human labour and impossible for computers, is one of those internet-era ideas that seems to be alternately trumpeted and trashed. The most famous example is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a web application that lets you allot work to anyone on the net that wants to do it for the money you have promised to pay.
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