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Mon, 17 May 2010 04:31:41 +0000

[...] need a name for your business. One iPhone developer put the task of naming his e-reader out to the crowd through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and $27.50 and 500 responses later came up with the name [...]

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By: Patrick Thompson

Patrick Thompson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:18:57 +0000

Any survey provider will work or you can do everything in Mechanical Turk. I used an external survey provider because I liked the summary graphs and tables that make it easy to follow the survey as it progresses. I used (and like) SurveyGizmo, but, again, any one would work.

For the confirmation code, I used a random word; I think I used “kodiak” for the main survey. You put the confirmation code on the Thank You page, so they can only see it when they submit the completed survey. Then they just copy and paste the code into the HIT.

-Patrick

By: Pras Sarkar

Pras Sarkar — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:40:53 +0000

Great idea to use MTurk for creative uses! What was the survey provider that worked well with MTurk? i.e had confirmation codes.

By: Scott Olson

Scott Olson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:32:56 +0000

Great use of MTurk. I posted about how I have been using them for interview transcription recently here: http://blog.mindlinkmarketing.com/2009/10/15/want-to-record-and-transcribe-an-interview-recordiapro-and-mechanical-turk-make-it-easy/.

I have always been very happy with their results and using them for product naming is a great idea.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:03:30 +0000

The feed issues have been resolved, please see my next post:

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/11/02/rss-troubles-feedburner/

Sorry for the inconvenience.

By: Thomas Williams

Thomas Williams — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:34:16 +0000

Hi Rob – +1 to Rytmis, and there’s 5 lines of Ã‹mail this”, “Subscribe to feed, “Bookmark this”underneath each blog post.

By: Rytmis

Rytmis — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:12:21 +0000

There’s something wrong with your feed. I’ve now had the most recent 20 items show up as new things three times in the last week.

By: Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:28:15 +0000

Phenomenal idea! I’d never even heard of MTurk.

I’ve been looking into VA’s and small-task freelancers for a project I’ve been scheming up recently. I’ll have to see if there are any parts that might be better crowd-sourced.