Amazon Opens Mechanical Turk Crowdsourcing for Non-Coders

Posted: 126 days ago

Amazon Web Services offers a Web-based editing tool for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for non-programmers to create tasks for others to work on together. Even as Turk is fading, businesses are leveraging Amazon's EC2, S3 and other cloud computing tools to give developers platforms to launch Web-based apps. This has spawned a nation of startups, including Bungee Labs, Etelos and Coghead. - Amazon Web Services, the Amazon.com unit that popularized Internet-based computing with its (Elastic Compute Cloud) and S3 (Simple Storage Service) services, is making its application development marketplace available to non-programmers. Today, business users with no coding skills can use a new W...