[p2p-research] Amazon created the workforce online market

[Alex Rollin]

It's been an interesting thing, mechanical turk.

http://www.ki-work.com/default.aspx tried to make up the gap, but, IMHO,
from a P2P perspective their model was broken from the start because there
is no commons to speak of.

If mechanical turk was a netarchical capitalist automation dream, then
Ki-Work was just one abstraction layer below it, with a group of people
running the market instead of 'just' policy.

A

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:

> begin magius quotation of Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 05:27:33PM +0200:
> > Amazon created this website, where is possible to sell and to buy
> > "abstract work units" (hits):
> >
> > https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
> >
> > Imho it's the capitalist valorization of what created by the
> > freesoftware communities. Individual commits of coders to shared
> > collective project's code on collaborative platforms (i.e.
> > Sourceforge) basicly are "abstract work units". Here comes the Capital
> > that make business on collaboration..
>
> The tasks are very different from free software
> development.  Typically they're things like "identify
> the type of business shown in this photo" or "select
> a category for this directory listing."
>
> (You can't split up a software project into abstract
> work units.  The industry has been trying to do so
> for decades.)
>
> And so far, none of the so-called "bounty systems"
> for paying rewards to fix bugs or add features in
> collaborative projects seem to have caught on.
>
> --
> Don Marti
> http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
> dmarti at zgp.org
>
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