Twitter has just upgraded the machinery behind its search, this time with added real-time human computation!
Most companies use at least 4 different cloud services, according to a study by Cloudability, proof that the cloud has become a ubiquitous tool, whether chief information officers want it to be or not.
Cloudability (a provider of cost-management tools …
Mechanical Turk is Amazon’s army of pieceworkers, ready to help you blend computation with human tasks in web apps.
What I didn’t know is that MTurk is also a powerful tool for testing and refining ideas. I learned this while …
Humanoid is today launching the world’s first human brain-powered API for developers and programmers “that actually works.”
With Humanoid developers can harness the strength of crowd-sourcing and get accurate results, not currently available from existing solutions such as Amazon’s Mechanical …
Guest Post
Lukas Biewald (pictured left) is cofounder and chief executive of CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses crowdsource small tasks. Vaughn Hester (pictured below) is an account manager/analyst at CrowdFlower.
Whether you are starting a new company or are just the …
