aws.amazon.com - 12/3/2008
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Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into ...
amazon.com - 12/3/2008
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amazon.com —
Amazon App for iPhone and iPod Touch. Buy
millions of products from the palm of your hand.
Amazon App now available in the App Store. Introducing Amazon Remembers
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Amazon Mobile for iPhone
torrentfreak.com - 12/3/2008
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torrentfreak.com —
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under
attack by online pirates. An addon for the Firefox
browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, ...
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Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon
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Amazon iPhone App Lets You Buy Anything You Take a Picture Of [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... exist solely to make buying crap easier. Its killer, buy-more-crap feature? Take a picture of anything, and Amazon'll shoot you the product page to waste money on it. So how does this economy-stoking magic app work? A complex, supremely intelligent algorithm that can analyze pixels and determine just what it is you want to buy? Gremlins? Google? Actually, if you guessed gremlins, you almost on the money. When you upload a photo, Amazon's living, breathing Mechanical Turk workers (so-named for one of the first "robots") try to match the photo up to ...
Appiphilia: Amazon remembers and Target takes aim at your gifting needs
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... Apparently Amazon has gone retro and incorporates the use of human intelligence -- Amazon Mechanical Turk. In this era of technological dependence, it's downright radical to integrate actual human beings into the research and matching process. (And since it got the hardware right and the, uh, "soft-wear" wrong, I'm thinking that maybe Amazon has more men searching than women.) ...
Crowdsourcing 1 Image to 10000 Artists for 100 Dollars
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog —
... They were all asked to paint a tiny part of the note without knowledge of the overall task and were paid a cent each for their work via the Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. Thus the total labor cost to create the $100 bill also turned out to be $100. ...
Hookup with Amazon's Turk gives Smartsheet "Viagra moment"
The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog —
... co-founder Brent Frei said his Bellevue startup had its "Viagra moment" when it hooked its software to Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk Web service. ...
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The Faces of Mechanical Turk
waxy.org 11/21/2008 — Andy Baio:
Last week, I started a new Turk experiment to answer two questions: what do these people look like, and how much does it cost for someone to reveal their face?
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Amazon's Team of Rivals
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/5/2008 — Amazon has done something improbable: it features direct competitors on its own site.
Amazon Launches Experimental Mobile Shopping Feature -- Amazon.com -
informationweek.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon.com has launched on the Apple App Store an iPhone application that makes it possible to take a picture of a product and then send it to the online retailer, which will try to match it with products in its inventory. Amazon said its new mobile ...
Amazon Kindle 2 coming in early 2009?
boygeniusreport.com 11/26/2008 —
It’s been almost two months since we scooped the Kindle 2 and since then, crickets. For those who need a quick recap, we’re talking about the sexied-up successor to Amazon’s popular Kindle eBook reader, set to further popularize ...
Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon's new iPhone app includes an "experimental" feature called Amazon Remembers that is designed to funnel sales from the offline world to the Internet.
One Week Later on Amazon Web Services
corpblog.helpstream.biz 12/8/2008 — Saturday marks the one week anniversary of moving the Helpstream application out of our data center and on to Amazon Web Services . I’m happy to report that it has gone even better than smoothly. Various customers are reporting that it has ...
Electronista | Amazon MP3 due for UK, elsewhere soon?
macnn.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon is in talks to bring its Amazon MP3 music store outside of the US as early as the summer, the British Telegraph newspaper claims . Senior officials from Amazon's online store have purportedly visited British label heads to negotiate details of ...
Amazon Kindle sold out again way beyond Christmas
i4u.com 11/28/2008 — How is it possible that Amazon screws up again on the Kindle supply? If you would order a Kindle ebook reader right now the shipping is estimated to take place in 11-13 weeks, missing December 24th by an eternity.
Is Oprah to blame? She ...
Amazon releases iPhone App for Mobile Shopping —
I4U News 12/3/2008
Amazon released today an mobile shopping application for the Apple iPhone on the App Store.
The Amazon app for iPhone and iPod touch offers an easy way for users to search and browse for products offered by Amazon and thousands of retailers like ...
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