pybossa - PyBossa is an open source platform for crowd-sourcing online (volunteer) assistance to perform tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence (e.g. image classification, transcription, information location etc).
Bossa is an open-source software framework for distributed thinking - the use of volunteers on the Internet to perform tasks that use human cognition, knowledge, or intelligence.
PyBossa is a free, open-source, platform for creating and running crowd-sourcing applications that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more!
"Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications." Sample Business Cases: http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/#bus-case "We had the wrong idea about computers managing without human beings. Computers have realised that the real way to make money is to employ millions of people doing jobs computers cannot do, and for pennies." (Pierre Lazuly) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_use_mechanical_turk_to_rock_conference_blogging.php
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