Content filter CrowdSifter cleans up with $50K from former Sex.com owner
Someone is finally mobilizing the collective wisdom of the porn-viewing masses. Well, sort of. CrowdSifter, the new content filter out of startup Dolores Labs, gathers and shows batches of images to a pool of thousands of public viewers who, together, flag obscene and violent images… Continue Reading
Outsourcing gets easier with new features on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s service that allows companies to outsource menial tasks that still require some human intelligence (like writing product descriptions or categorizing images), just got more accessible. Today it released features that allow businesses to manage these tasks through a new graphical interface.
Previously, Amazon… Continue Reading