Posted on April 14, 2008 by Stavros Vologiannidis
…or in other words, how to rent an army of slaves on demand.
Quoting from Amazon Web Services (emphasis mine):
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 [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by Stavros Vologiannidis
From ajaxian.com
In this podcast interview, Justin discusses all that has to happen on the server side in order to render Ajax and its related technologies on the client side, what the shift toward RESTful-style apps means for developers, why there’s an increased focus on security as it pertains to what ends up in the browser [...]
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