Friday, November 04, 2005

Get paid to find Waldo

Amazon.com has a new program that wants you to 'Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it. It's the Amazon Mechanical Turk:

1) Pick a task, which Amazon calls a HIT. "For example a HIT might ask: "Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?" Typically these tasks are extraordinarily difficult for computers, but simple for humans to answer."

2) Find Waldo.

3) Profit! "The money you earn is deposited into your Amazon.com account, where you can turn it into cash at any time by transferring it to your personal checking account."

(thanks, Slashdot)

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