Comments on: Mechanical Turk Recap

By: Brokekid.net

Brokekid.net — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:42:22 +0000

I was messing around Mechanical Turk the other day and saw a ton of great ideas. When I first heard of it, I thought it was a way for Amazon to nail down some of its BETA projects but it goes much further than that. You can create your own HITs and build massive amounts of content on the cheap. Hmm. What to build?…

By: Latest links from delicious

Latest links from delicious — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:38:27 +0000

The ESV Bible team crowdsourced their interlinked search database to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. That turned out quite well for them.

By: Silent to the Dark

Silent to the Dark — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:38:23 +0000

’ve been meaning to talk about the ESV bible annotations done with the Amazon Mechanical Turk for ages, since I haven’t you’re just going to have to assume that I have and that I’ve noted how cool the ESV is in general…

By: fantasy is what people want, but reality is what people need ...

fantasy is what people want, but reality is what people need ... — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:23:07 +0000

Great advice from Fred Wilson on bringing someone in from the outside to run your startup. Interesting concept video showing off the ability of an animation company. Thanks Andy. The rm *nix command. Overheard on the phone.

By: Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75

Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:23:07 +0000

Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 2 cents a quote, with a 98.3% success rate [via]. read more at Waxy.org Links. rss2lj.

By: Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75

Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:23:07 +0000

The Standard Bible Society used the “crowdsourcing” of Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk to produce an English Standard version of the bible at $.02 a verse and 98.3% accuracy. I had forgotten all about the mechanical turk until I read this

By: Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75

Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:23:07 +0000

Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75. Okay the sheep were cute, but this is interesting.

By: Disambiguating Names in the New Testament

Disambiguating Names in the New Testament — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:23:07 +0000

I’m still working away (far too slowly for my impatient tastes) on the first complete first of New Testament Names, a semantic knowledgebase of named things in the New Testament and their relationships: you can get a sense of it from

By: Mechanical Turk for Metadata Collection

Mechanical Turk for Metadata Collection — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:23:07 +0000

Esv_blog There are some fascinating posts over at the ESV blog. ESV refers to the English Standard Version of the Bible. In order to increase the accuracy of their database of Biblical quotations, they used the Amazon Mechanical Turk.

By: links for 2006-06-16

links for 2006-06-16 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:23:07 +0000

From the blogroll… New Fink release. CameraHobby – Learning Modules and e-Books. Mechanical Turk Recap.

By: Free, as in beer « Photography on Tap

Free, as in beer « Photography on Tap — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:27:33 +0000

[...] The ESV is controlled by people who understand technology. In this sense, the ESV completely stands alone, and is a “future” translation–forward facing not only in translation method, but also in distribution methods. The ESV used Mechanical Turk to produce a dirt-cheap database that is unique to Christendom. The ESV has an excellent set of APIs, none of which are seen as a detriment to the hard copy on the shelf at Borders. [...]

By: Musings of a Chicagoan

Musings of a Chicagoan — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:19:18 +0000

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By: .:: a few thoughts on the subject by rob wright ::. » ESV uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:01:29 +0000

[...] In addition to being a great translation, the ESV guys are very high-tech…my favorite combination Christians and geeks They even have a blog. It’s terrific that they can weave Perl, XML, and Bible quotes in the same post! Check out their use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in this entry, ESV Bible Blog » Blog Archive » Mechanical Turk Recap. June 29th 2006 Posted to Technology, Philosophy [...]

By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » fantasy is what people want, but reality is what people need - Links D’Fluffy 29th June 2006

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:12:07 +0000

[...] Another cool use of the Mechanical Turk. This has to be the most innovative thing I’ve seen in that it is an api for manual labour. [...]

By: The Open Source Ministry Blog » ESV Used Mechanical Turk

The Open Source Ministry Blog » ESV Used Mechanical Turk — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:42:18 +0000

[...] In fact, the English Standard Version has started using it for building up their database. This is something I could probably get involved with. [...]

By: uskollinen » Artificial Artifical Intelligence

uskollinen » Artificial Artifical Intelligence — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:53:34 +0000

[...] And it was used with great success on the Bible quotation project for the English Standard Version of the bible. According to their entry, it cost them $75 to confirm a database that before now, has never existed for the bible in the history of humankind. Not bad! [...]

By: The Boars Head Tavern » Blog Archive »

The Boars Head Tavern » Blog Archive » — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:50:58 +0000

[...] Those crazy ESV cats are geeks. [...]