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25 pointsPanMan9 comments

Was your motivation to go through another intermediate on top of mturk because Amazon does not deliver its mturk service to European companies or for another reason ?

It's mostly because Crowfdlower does some additional filtering: they have an algorithm that rates workers, and bases it's trust in the worker on how well he does compared to others. It also does some magic on resubmitting a unit as long as the results aren't clear yet.

Also you can set some "gold" units: assignments you have done yourself, so you know the right answer. This can be used to test if the workers are actually trying, instead of just clicking random stuff.

While I could have built all that myself, Crowdflower already does this, and has a bit simpler API to boot, than Mturk itself.

Neat! I tried signing up for mturk a few weeks ago as a customer but they wouldn't accept me because of the location of the company.

Pretty disappointing. I hope they open that up sooner or later (rather sooner), it seems to be a little roundabout to have to register another company just to be able to use mturk.

I actually also tried signing up for mTurk. And while I guess it's not how it's supposed to work, I could sign up after looking up a random NY zipcode. Not 100% sure about the billing tho, but I do know non-americans who have used Mturk before, and supposedly also paid for it.

Did you find out if the CrowdFlower workers are more/less expensive compared to mturk (excluding CrowdFlower charges of course)? What I mean is there might be people wanting to work only under CrowdFlower's umbrella and asking more for their (proven) quality work.

Crowdflower uses mturk as its main source of workers (they have some other interfaces as well), but I'm not sure that it being a crowdflower job is even shown at mturk (I'm sure some mturk workers will recognize the layout etc). I haven't compared the prices, since I haven't run the jobs directly on Mturk, but we are quite happy with our current pricepoint.

Have you ever looked at the 1secondfilm project? http://www.the1secondfilm.com/

Seems like something that might interest you - you should get in touch with them.

The video is actually really impressive.

http://oneframeoffame.com. It's a pretty catchy song as well!

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