Comments on: The Price of Happiness: 10¢ http://blog.jwegener.com/2009/02/11/compliment-me-amazon-mechanical-turk-crowdsourcing-creativity/ Jonathan Wegener's Technology/Marketing Blog Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:34:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: sudonim http://blog.jwegener.com/2009/02/11/compliment-me-amazon-mechanical-turk-crowdsourcing-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-70 sudonim Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:37:59 +0000 http://blog.jwegener.com/?p=212#comment-70 Mechanical turk experiments crack me up. It's always fun when you get such an odd cross section of people from around the globe to complete seemingly silly tasks! I love it. I wonder how they would fare with using turk for user testing. Mechanical turk experiments crack me up. It's always fun when you get such an odd cross section of people from around the globe to complete seemingly silly tasks! I love it. I wonder how they would fare with using turk for user testing.

]]> By: jwegener http://blog.jwegener.com/2009/02/11/compliment-me-amazon-mechanical-turk-crowdsourcing-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-69 jwegener Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:29:05 +0000 http://blog.jwegener.com/?p=212#comment-69 It will be interesting to see how your results (and your user base) compare to the amazon turkers. So the top three compliments will get $5 each? Or the bounty is spread three ways?<br><br>I'll check out your site in detail later, but at first glance it looks cool -- like a similar idea to Yahoo Answers, but more focused on creativity. Or maybe a simpler version of Cambrian House focused on smaller and more discrete tasks rather than forming an end goal of using crowdsourcing to start entire companies. It will be interesting to see how your results (and your user base) compare to the amazon turkers. So the top three compliments will get $5 each? Or the bounty is spread three ways?

I'll check out your site in detail later, but at first glance it looks cool — like a similar idea to Yahoo Answers, but more focused on creativity. Or maybe a simpler version of Cambrian House focused on smaller and more discrete tasks rather than forming an end goal of using crowdsourcing to start entire companies.

]]> By: The Team at BountyStorms.com http://blog.jwegener.com/2009/02/11/compliment-me-amazon-mechanical-turk-crowdsourcing-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-68 The Team at BountyStorms.com Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:47:51 +0000 http://blog.jwegener.com/?p=212#comment-68 Excellent post! It wound up cheering us up as well. <br><br>As an experiment, we've created a duplicate crowdsourcing experiment on our new brainstorming website, <a href="http://BountyStorms.com" rel="nofollow">BountyStorms.com</a>. Come check it out -- in 24 hours we should see the results: <br><br><a href="http://www.bountystorms.com/brainstorm/show/341" rel="nofollow">http://www.bountystorms.com/brainstorm/show/341</a> Excellent post! It wound up cheering us up as well.

As an experiment, we've created a duplicate crowdsourcing experiment on our new brainstorming website, BountyStorms.com. Come check it out — in 24 hours we should see the results:

http://www.bountystorms.com/brainstorm/show/341

]]> By: Casey Jones http://blog.jwegener.com/2009/02/11/compliment-me-amazon-mechanical-turk-crowdsourcing-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Casey Jones Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:36:17 +0000 http://blog.jwegener.com/?p=212#comment-67 Hello Jonathan,<br><br>I work in support at <a href="http://Backblaze.com" rel="nofollow">Backblaze.com</a> <br>We tried sending you support emails, but they kept bouncing backing with Mail Delivery Errors to your @columbia.edu address.<br>So hopefully you will read this message.<br><br>As to your question about how to uninstall Backblaze there are several methods.<br><br>• You can download the Backblaze Uninstaller at:<br><a href="https://www.backblaze.com/files/UninstallBackblaze.zip" rel="nofollow">https://www.backblaze.com/files/UninstallBackbl...</a><br><br>• There is a link to the uninstaller on the Backblaze help page at:<br><a href="https://www.backblaze.com/help.html#install" rel="nofollow">https://www.backblaze.com/help.html#install</a><br><br>• You may also re-download the Mac version. We added an uninstaller icon in the DMG image.<br><br>I hope that helps,<br><br>-Casey<br>Backblaze Team Hello Jonathan,

I work in support at Backblaze.com
We tried sending you support emails, but they kept bouncing backing with Mail Delivery Errors to your @columbia.edu address.
So hopefully you will read this message.

As to your question about how to uninstall Backblaze there are several methods.

• You can download the Backblaze Uninstaller at:
https://www.backblaze.com/files/UninstallBackbl...

• There is a link to the uninstaller on the Backblaze help page at:
https://www.backblaze.com/help.html#install

• You may also re-download the Mac version. We added an uninstaller icon in the DMG image.

I hope that helps,

-Casey
Backblaze Team

]]> By: Todd http://blog.jwegener.com/2009/02/11/compliment-me-amazon-mechanical-turk-crowdsourcing-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Todd Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:28:15 +0000 http://blog.jwegener.com/?p=212#comment-66 hahaha. I'm glad I got to actually see the responses. Though mechanical turk might require a modicum of intelligence like you said, it's pretty clear that doesn't require much more...<br><br>the Paula Scher video was interesting as well. I never picked up any of that stuff about the lincoln jazz center logo, but I'm glad now that I know what she was going for. hahaha. I'm glad I got to actually see the responses. Though mechanical turk might require a modicum of intelligence like you said, it's pretty clear that doesn't require much more…

the Paula Scher video was interesting as well. I never picked up any of that stuff about the lincoln jazz center logo, but I'm glad now that I know what she was going for.

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