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Made By Argon Web Designs. Airtasker / Get it done. Logo Design | Outsource/Freelance/Etc. Mechanical Turk vs oDesk: My experiences - A Computer Scientist in a Business School. [Necessary disclaimer: I work with the oDesk Research team as the "academic-in-residence. " The experiences that I describe in this blog post are the reason that I started working with oDesk. I am not writing this because I started working with oDesk. And at the end of the day, I doubt that oDesk needs my blog posts to get visibility :-)] Mechanical Turk. Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence.

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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 their applications. While computing technology continues to improve, there are still many things that human beings can do much more effectively than computers, such as identifying objects in a photo or video, performing data de-duplication, transcribing audio recordings or researching data details. Freelance Web Designer and Web Developers for Hire at Freelancify.com.