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Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

WTF Is A Kindle

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

So, apparently Amazon’s new wireless book, the Kindle 2, had already sold 300,000 units in about 2 months since its launch in Feb. A stark contrast to the mere 400-500,000 sold in the entire lifetime of the previous generation, which was released with a bunch of fanfare of its own in 2008 (sold out within 5.5 hrs!). There is already another newer Kindle device, released in May, that has an accelerometer, which means you can turn page by moving the device and it will change its view from landscape to portrait depending on how you hold it.

The Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle


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Need Extra Cash?

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Remedial tasks to the rescue!

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is always hiring. Computers have successfully taken plenty of jobs away from the work force, but fortunately for us not all tasks can be performed by a computer! Sometimes, a job just calls for an HIT (a Human Intelligence Task) .

The Mechanical Turk name is based on “The Turk,” which was an 18th century chess-playing machine that appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. Sure, it turned out The Turk was a hoax, an illusion, but oh wellz, welcome to the work force!