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Amazon's "Remembers" feature needs to go further

Amazon's "Remembers" feature needs to go furtherMechanical TurkJust a note, Amazon appears to be using its "Mechanical Turk" site to do these matches, so the accuracy is up to a human right now. At 10 cents per lookup the current price on the site.A very good use of the TurkMakes...

Tags: Mechanical Turk, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Mechanical Turk redux

Mechanical Turk reduxWell my time is worth more ####The article stated in developing nations,pushing wealth down the ladder.This is a flawed concept, since the inceptionof time there were poor/rich and it willalways be that way.Communist countrys have failed on this sameconcept, make everyone cloans of each otherliving shacks, no utilities,...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Mechanical Turk

Discussion threads 2006-01-23

Mechanical Turk redux

Amazon.com recently launched Mechanical Turk, a service named after the 18th-Century chess-playing "automaton." Turk solves a perennial problem: Computers are inadequate for many tasks--tasks that human beings are often quite good at. Billed as "artificial, artificial intelligence," the Turk is a system that allows programs to "invoke" Turk participants for...

Tags: Mechanical Turk

Blog posts 2006-01-23

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Photoshop releases an iPhone app

Nope, won't purchase Photoshop. In my workflow Photoshop Elements PSE and iPhoto provide me all the features I need. While for may the cost of Photoshop is prohibitive PSE is quite reasonable having an amazing amount of Photoshop features. If one needs more features try free GIMP.Don't laugh at PSE....

Tags: Smart phones, Adobe PhotoShop, PSE, photograph, Apple iPhone, Adobe Lightroom, GIMP

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Fake reviews prompt Belkin apology

Fake reviews prompt Belkin apologyDoesn't support unethical practicesSo this is bad, but rewriting a users HTTP stream with an advertisement on random streams is ethical?RE: Fake reviews prompt Belkin apologyOOPS! Someone just got caught and I'm not speaking about the requestor.It also allows the question to be askedcould some...

Tags: Belkin Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture

Cloud computing isn't going to dominate the tech landscape, but will raise a ruckus for software vendors. Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. And there's a race to deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers. ...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Google Apps, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jeffrey Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-12

App Store developers stuffing the ballot box (again)

App Store developers are known for finding creative ways to game Apple's App Store for financial gain. In July 2008 crafty developers discovered that changing the titles of their apps to include all spaces and/or special characters would make them appear at the top of the category...

Tags: Developer, Review, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Will OpenID catch on?

A survey of more than 300 people shows that few people have heard of OpenID, and even fewer are actually using it. Chris Messina, the guy with the guitar pictured here, has written up results of a survey conducted using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Messina, rightly, took...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Survey, OpenID, Marketing Research, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-14

News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Broadband, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Amazon aims to make Mechanical Turk more business friendly

Amazon on Wednesday rolled out new features to its Mechanical Turk web service designed to expand its appeal to a broader set of businesses. Mechanical Turk is a work marketplace that can be used to outsource software development. The company said its latest Web interface guides business...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Productivity, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Working online from home in your pyjamas

A good proportion of a working day in the average office, is indeed working outside of the office. It seems nowadays though, the opportunity has arisen to let those who can't get a job - students for example - to utilise their skills for the online market. Working from home...

Tags: Poster, Task, Web Browsers, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Google: CAPTCHAs aren't dead yet

CAPTCHAs, those fuzzy letters that are supposed to ensure you're a human when you register for an account, have been under fire of late, but Google says their demise is greatly exaggerated. That's the takeaway from a post by Brad Stone in the New York Times Bits...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Hacker, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Amazon.com: Will you recognize it in 10 years?

Amazon's fourth quarter results had a little bit of everything for its various observers: Sales were impressive and the outlook wasn't bad, but worries about profit margins are worrisome. But amid all the talk about consumer demand, growth abroad and adding third party sellers to Amazon's platform the "other" line...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Service, Web Services, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Amazon's latest web service? A database

Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr has been at it again, using Twitter to announce the release of his employer's latest offering. Amazon has come a long way since its days as a big book shop, and is increasingly making a name for itself as an exemplar...

Tags: S3 Inc., Web, Database, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Click a mouse, feed the hungry in U.N. campaign

Click a mouse, feed the hungry in U.N. campaignCool, but...Wouldn't something like an Amazon Mechanical Turk-like task, provide better opportunities? I suppose some people do like word games like this, but I don't see there would be any difference in adding some other low-key mental task which could actually be...

Tags: Mice, mouse

Discussion threads 2007-11-09

Enterprise search: Why it's a crisis and why Googzilla will strike

Enterprise search: Why it's a crisis and why Googzilla will strikeWhere Google Simply Doesn't Stack UpYou make several very good points in your post, most of which I agree with. Some customers are indeed more challenging to deal with than others - especially those who are not looking to...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., enterprise search, business issue, Googzilla

Discussion threads 2007-05-16

Web 2.0 Expo: Amazon's S3 passes 5 billion objects stored

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo shared the growth numbers for S3, the companys on demand storage service. In July of 2006, S3 held 800,000 million objects. Today the number surpasses 5 billion. The best day was 920,847,345 objects added and the peak second is ...

Tags: Web 2.0 Expo, SaaS, General, Amazon

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Amazon sees the future: Humans will be computing gofers

In the future were all going to become gofers for computers. Pleasant thought isnt it?Amazon has filed a patent for a "Hybrid machine/human computing arrangement." From the patent abstract via Slashdot:"A hybrid machine/human computing arrangement which advantageously involves humans to assist a computer to solve particular tasks, allowing the computer...

Tags: Innovation, General, Amazon

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Three voice apps we could really use right now

I wasnt able to get down to ETel down in Burlingame, Cal. last week. But if I had, you most certainly would have found me at the First Ever Telephony Mashup Contest. The Contests goal was to create a voice application that could offer practical...

Tags: General, Research

Blog posts 2007-03-06

The growth of mashups continued throughout 2006

One of my favorite Internet stats to check out are the mashup and open API trendlines on the front page of Programmable Web. Consistently, month after month this year and right up until present day, weve seen the mashup stats climb intriguing steadiness. And along with hundreds of...

Tags: mashup

Blog posts 2006-12-13