6 posts and columns on Mechanical Turk

PaperKarma’s Mobile App Tries to Eliminate Junk From Your Mailbox

in Commerce on February 8 at 10:58 pm PT

PaperKarma is a new app that helps you reduce the amount of unwanted coupons, catalogs and postcards that clog your mailbox.
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Greylock's Reid Hoffman and David Sze on the Future of Social (Video)

in Social on December 29, 2010 at 11:39 am PT

Greylock partners Reid Hoffman and David Sze share their predictions for the social Web in a video interview. They also tell us some segments they would like to invest in, such as the integration of physical and virtual experiences and ways to apply network effects to work.

Jeff Bezos, Spark Capital, Bet on Aviary, a Web-Based Would-Be Adobe

in Media on October 25, 2009 at 9:00 pm PT

Last week, Jeff Bezos made $2 billion in one day, courtesy of a massive spike in Amazon shares. That gives him more money to plow into the likes of Aviary, a Long Island-based company that makes design software. The Amazon CEO has made a second investment in the company as part of a $7 million round led by Spark Capital.
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New Clues About Missing Aviator Fossett–Whom the Internet Has Tried to Find–Discovered by Analog Hiker

in News on October 1, 2008 at 5:32 pm PT

A man hiking in a remote part of Mammoth Lakes in California’s Sierra Nevada found a pilot’s license and an FAA card, both bearing the name of aviator Steve Fossett. The discovery is about 50 miles away from Nevada desert locations where teams had been searching for the well-known adventurer, who vanished while on a solo flight in a single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon a year ago. After Fossett’s disappearance, tens of thousands of Web users mounted an unusual online search mission, called “crowdsourcing,” studying satellite photos of a huge swath of ground.