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Upcoming Webinar: Using Mechanical Turk through Crowdflower 19 Aug 2013 | 11:24 pm
Next week, join us to learn how to get the most out of Amazon Mechanical Turk using the Crowdflower Platform. On August 28th experts from Amazon and Crowdflower, a Mechanical Turk Partner, will host a...
How SnipSnap Built and Scaled Mobile Couponing with People 14 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
When Ted Mann founded SnipSnap, the popular mobile couponing application, he didn’t anticipate the challenge his team would encounter converting printed coupons into a digital, mobile-ready offers usi...
HIT Critique: Design Tips for Improving Results 31 Jul 2013 | 10:11 am
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our HIT Critique series in which we feature HITs selected from the Mechanical Turk Marketplace and provide feedback intended to help Requesters design better templa...
Upcoming Meetup: Learn How InfoScout Scales Receipt Transcription with Mechanical Turk 19 Jul 2013 | 09:20 pm
The San Francisco Data Mining Meetup Group continues their series on crowdsourcing next Tuesday, July 23rd with Jon Brelig, co-founder and CTO of InfoScout, presenting how his team has created a scala...
Upside Commerce Moves Print Coupons to Mobile with Mechanical Turk 28 Jun 2013 | 11:20 pm
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is part of our Featured Requester series highlighting examples of how Mechanical Turk Requesters are utilizing our marketplace and the results they’re able to achieve. This...
Working Smart: A Worker's Perspective on Selecting HITs 27 Jun 2013 | 07:06 pm
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is part of our Worker Corner series featuring insights, advice and experiences from Mechanical Turk Workers. We’ve invited Jeremy Lesh, a Master Worker, to share a few thou...
Introducing eFLOW5: A Mechanical Turk-Assisted Digital Transcription Solution from Top Image Systems 4 Jun 2013 | 04:50 am
Top Image Systems (TIS) – the maker of eFLOW, an end-to-end document processing solution that extracts, classifies and validates data from documents – will launch the latest version of their eFLOW pro...
Upcoming Meetup: Edwin Chen of Google on Human Powered Machine Learning 1 Jun 2013 | 04:19 am
The San Francisco Data Mining Meetup Group is hosting a crowdsourcing-themed event Thursday, June 6th at Trulia’s Headquarters in downtown San Francisco. The event will feature Edwin Chen, an engineer...
Mechanical Turk Workers Help MIT Scientists Identify Endangered Species 8 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
If you watch animal documentaries or TV shows on Animal Planet, you may be familiar with how scientists use physical tags to track animals in the wild. However, sometimes tagging can be difficult or i...
The AWS Partner Network Helps Partners Build Their Businesses 2 May 2013 | 02:56 am
We’re pleased to announce the addition of Mechanical Turk Partners to the AWS Partner Network (APN) Portal, a Partner-only section of AWS’ website. The APN Portal provides our Partners the tools and r...
