“Groovy Motherfucker”

MS Word plugin which uses Mechanical Turk to crowdsource editing and proofreading inside the document you’re working on.

“Birthday greetings outsourced to Mechanical Turk.” Amazing. A friend of Hilary Mason couldn’t decide what to write to wish her a happy birthday… so he paid Mechanical Turkers to write for him.

The best use of Mechanical Turk so far: Paying people pennies to draw cats and supply cat stories.

Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill.

Combine Amazon’s various webservices to create a “hum a song into a microphone and find out what it is” system. Most cunning feature: Using the “Mechanical Turk” artificial-artificial-intelligence service to use humans to identify your humming!

10,000 sheep, drawn by MTurk users, for $0.02 each.

Get paid for grunt-work that’s too complex for computers to deal with. Awesome name, and further proof that Amazon is really competing with Google, not buy.com.