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Amazon's Mechanical Turk Used for Fraudulent Activities
Written by Sarah Perez / August 29, 2008 8:36 AM / 26 Comments

Amazon's Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs may stop

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Amazon Announces New Payment Services and Updates to Mechanical Turk
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 30, 2008 9:43 AM

In a quick succession of announcements, Amazon released a set of hosted e-commerce payment services, as well as an update to its Mechanical Turk service. The payment service, Checkout by

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10,000 Cents Buys You $100: Awesome Crowdsourced Art Project
Written by Josh Catone / April 16, 2008 11:39 AM / 4 Comments

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a crowdsourced art project that led 10,000 artists, each paid one penny for their contribution, to recreate a US $100 bill one tiny section at a

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Amazon's Other Service: A Virtual Sweatshop? Actually, No
Written by Josh Catone / March 28, 2008 12:23 PM / 6 Comments

Amazon's web services get a ton of press, but mostly in the context of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the Simple Storage Service (S3), SimpleDB or one of the company's

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