Ask HN: Amazon Mechanical Turk Examples

Here are a few of my favorite crowdsourcing links. They're not all directly related to Mechanical Turk, but you may find them interesting.

Research on crowdsourcing complex tasks, such as writing articles (open source):

A company that adds an automated quality layer and/or automated peer review layer:

Crowdsourced translation:

Audio transcription through MTurk:

Crowdsourcing scientific research:

I used this guy's example to do audio transcription:

I thought it worked pretty well.

ymmv

You can use it to screen content uploaded to a website using the Turk API, e.g., "Is this image pornographic?"