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    1. Is Mechanical Turk related to cloud computing?
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      each is a way to spread work across a large number of resources while freeing oneself from full-time management of a large work/computing-force
       
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    How an emergence of multiple worker clouds will effect throughput and other characteristics of mechanical turk?

     
    1. A crucial difference between a human and computer cloud is relative limit to the elasticity of human worker cloud as well as effect one such cloud has on another
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      Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com

      One type of cloud computing tends to defy traditional categorization and that’s harnessing human workers in the cloud, as a service. This is best exemplified by Amazon’s intriguing offering, Mechanical Turk, which plugs thousands of people into its on-demand cloud. This model includes any service which provides a consistent, service-oriented interface over a network to interact with people in a directed, collaborative manner. This is an on-demand form of outsourcing as well a cloud-based form of crowdsourcing.

       

    Is Mechanical Turk related to cloud computing?

     
    1. each is a way to spread work across a large number of resources while freeing oneself from full-time management of a large work/computing-force
      3 supporters | posted by seemore