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Announcing Amazon Mechanical Turk (November 02, 2005) Today, humans still significantly outperform the most powerful computers at completing such simple tasks as identifying objects in photographs – something children can do even before they learn to speak. However, when we think of interfaces between human beings and computers, we usually assume that the human being is the one requesting that a task be completed, and the computer is completing the task and providing the results. What if this process were reversed and a computer program could ask a human being to perform a task and return the results? What if it could coordinate many human beings to perform a task?
Amazon Mechanical Turk does this, providing a web services API for computers to integrate Artificial Artificial Intelligence directly into their processing.
Announcing Amazon Historical Pricing (October 26, 2005) The Amazon Historical Pricing web service gives developers programmatic access to over three years of actual sales data for books, music, videos, and DVDs (as sold by third-party sellers on Amazon.com). Sellers can use Amazon Historical Pricing to make informed decisions on pricing and purchasing.
Alexa Web Information Service 1.0 Released (October 10, 2005) The Alexa Web Information Service 1.0 release is now available. The Alexa Web Information Service offers developers a platform for creating innovative applications based on Alexa's vast repository of information about the Web. IMPORTANT: The beta version will be retired on December 1st. Please move to the official version as soon as possible.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (November 09, 2005) Business Week's Rob Hof writes about his impression of Amazon Mechanical Turk in The Tech Beat blog.
Amazon lets people help computers -- and get paid (November 09, 2005) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes about Amazon Mechanical Turk after an interview with Amazon Web Services' Peter Cohen and Adam Selipsky.
