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2 unusual facts about Mechanical Turk


Benjamin Joffe

Among his investments are Cmune, an online gaming company based in China and makers of Uberstrike, a popular first-person shooter with over 10 million players; Gengo (formerly MyGengo) a "Mechanical Turk for translations".

InfoArmy

InfoArmy differs from many distributed crowdsourcing models (such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk) in that each report is built entirely by one researcher team rather than by a contributing 'crowd.' Senior Researchers check the data and sources of Primary Researchers for accuracy.


Offshore outsourcing

Crowdsourcing systems such as Mechanical Turk have added the element of scalability, allowing businesses to outsource information tasks across the Internet to thousands of workers.


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