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Know when to fold ‘em

December 30, 2005

I’ve decided to scrap the Bitporters Text Translation Service (BTTS). This is hard for me to do because I know it is a viable business venture. I’m dropping BTTS due to a new job that I am starting in the New Year. Also I am scrapping it because I do not know [...]

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How to bootstrap an AMT based business.

December 16, 2005

I’m shocked at how few Requesters there are on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) right now. I know there are some very technically adept people out there that are doing HITs, I think these people should be thinking of ways they can PUT hits on AMT. This is short guide to getting a business/service [...]

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This one goes out to all my (C# 2.0) homies

December 15, 2005

This is really rough right now but here is my Amazon Mechanical Turk controller class form my BTTS toolkit. This should help any C# developers get some HITs up on AMT. I basically took the code from the AWSzone.com and made it a bit more usable for me. I will keep posting [...]

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A Matter of Trust - People are smarter than algorithms

December 13, 2005

I just read the Turk Lurkers post about building trust relationships between requesters and turkers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. That’s a good method but the problem is you shouldn’t trust any kind of automated quality control system. Some how - some way someone will be able to sneak by it. Sure [...]

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Squidoo.com finnnnalllyyy

December 6, 2005

So I’m off on a business trip. I promised myself I’d take a bit of a break from my latest development bender. Well Seth had to go and drop the s-bomb and make it a public beta.
Do you want to make money from Google Adsense and Amazon referral links? Do you have [...]

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