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title: Meat-Based Web Services
categories:
- work
content-tags:
- business
- technology
- software
- web
- fave
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![Turk](/media/2006-08-25-meat-based-web-services/mturk.jpg)
[Amazon's Mechanical Turk][2] is one of the most interesting new business models this year.  The concept of a task-completion marketplace is not too innovative, but their model of qualifications and exposure of [web services][3] certainly piques my interest.  Only time will tell if they can fill their chessboard with enough [Schlumbergers][4] to keep playing.

   [2]: http://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=whatis
   [3]: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSMechanicalTurkRequester/2005-10-01/
   [4]: http://batgirl.atspace.com/Mulhouse.html
