[p2p-research] Amazon created the workforce online market

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Don,

you write: 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.
I'm interested in any material on this, including by you,

also, any critiques, explanations of mechanical turk would be welcome, it's
not covered in our wiki yet,

Michel

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:14 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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