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Amazon Mechanical Turk = $5.40/Hour

1hourexp

Originally uploaded by Bitporters.

So I did my experiment, I spent one solid hour doing HITs on Amazon Mechanical Turk. In the end I made only $5.40, a little disappointing! I was sure I was going to at least double that number
I was [...]

Amazon Mechanical Turk - Day 4

So four days and 505 HITs later I’m sitting at a cool $6.84. Note: More than half of my HITs are still in the pending state. I’m getting pretty quick at cracking these off, with my tabletPC I’m down to < 5-10 seconds pet HIT. At 3 cents a hit, I’m not really sure if [...]

Mechanical Turk

I’ve been playing with this new service - Amazon Mechanical Turk. I think this is a great tool for people looking to make money but also it could also be a compontent used to build a very powerful online asset.

Announcing Amazon Mechanical Turk (November 02, 2005)
Today, humans still significantly outperform the most powerful [...]

Codefest weekend - BPAeroBiz

Shot1

Originally uploaded by Bitporters.

I decided to scrap GunsGunsGuns, I couldn’t get the performance I was looking for.
Besides I’m not really into side-scroller platform/shooters. I decided to start my ‘dream’ WPF project. BPAeroBiz is going to be a business simulation game.
Although WPF will not [...]

Codefest weekend - Concept RS

Concept RS Car selection screen

Originally uploaded by Bitporters.

My good friend Jon Tackabury came up to Ottawa this weekend. And what do nerds do on weekend get aways? Code games and drink beer!
I’ve added a set to my flickr account where I will be posting shots [...]