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Tim O’Reilly has a post about using the Mechanical Turk of Amazon for creating a new kind of share ware via bitporters media. The concept here is to provide additional components with the  Mechanical Turk api so that the users can submit the HITs from their desktops which he calls as Workware. Excerpt.

“Think AMT + Adsense or “AMTSense” as I will call it through out the rest of this post…. AMT at the core is a WEB SERVICE, so why not add features to the API that allow users to submit HIT’s directly from desktop programs. You’ve heard of SHAREWARE, what about the concept of WORKWARE (people perform a few micro tasks in your name to pay for the right to use it). I see this concept changing the business model of anything from file download sites to the independent game industry / open source community.”

Tim O’Reilly has a post about using the Mechanical Turk of Amazon for creating a new kind of share ware via bitporters media. The concept here is to provide additional components with the  Mechanical Turk api so that the users can submit the HITs from their desktops which he calls as Workware. Excerpt.

“Think AMT + Adsense or “AMTSense” as I will call it through out the rest of this post…. AMT at the core is a WEB SERVICE, so why not add features to the API that allow users to submit HIT’s directly from desktop programs. You’ve heard of SHAREWARE, what about the concept of WORKWARE (people perform a few micro tasks in your name to pay for the right to use it). I see this concept changing the business model of anything from file download sites to the independent game industry / open source community.”