Dallasblog.com reports about a new service from Amazon called Mechanical Turk.
The idea is to break up complex desktop jobs into small portions, then pay for production of each of these “Human Intelligence Tasks” directly. Right now the activity is dominated by college kids and the housebound who take on HITs for chump change. But the concept has legs.
Maybe this will help us get over those annoying tasks like balancing our checkbooks.
When I get a moment I’ll check it out and let you know what’s going on.
