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POPSHow to Find Work From Home:Micro Jobs Micro jobs, small tasks performed for pennies, is the latest on line phenom. Human Intelligence Tasks or HITS is what one of the sites, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, calls it. Small tasks that only humans can perform, some of which are so mindless it's possible to accomplish at night while watching television. Tasks include taking surveys, liking a Facebook page, testing useability of websites, bookmarking articles in social websites, translating, transcribing, writing small posts and the like.
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POPSVirtual social economy emerging - Offerpal partners with Amazon to Launch Offerpal Tasks [10Feb10] The combination of gaming strategies and social currency is very potent. A growing number of major players, such as Amazon and Facebook are experimenting with social currencies. If a virtual economy is born, it will move beyond the gaming world into the worlds of information and journalism. Imagine thousands of citizen journalists competing for news scoop points (judged by their readers). The virtual social economy becomes really interesting when it begins to impact on the 'real' economy. Indeed, it is already happening. For a "clip-briefing" on social currencies which we prepared for the "Fellows" of the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce), see http://groups.diigo.com/group/rsa-social-currency-project.
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POPSFirm pays cash for fake positive reviews Yep, that’s right, according to his LinkedIn profile, Bayard is the Business Development Representative at Belkin International in charge of “Sales of Belkin products to major .com accounts such as Amazon.com.” In other words, this guy is paying people to post fake good reviews of his own products which, according to most people who actually use them, suck (and ironically, he’s using Amazon’s own service to screw up their own review system).
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POPSSome interesting historical gadgets The comments provide some additional gadgets to the listed ones. There are also some very critical comments (as always), which made me think that in these times it has become much more difficult and requires much more research to write a more or less 'sound & thorough' article about a topic, that can withstand the critical and knowing readers (which definitely exist within those millions of internet users).
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