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== Technologies ==
== Technologies ==
'''1. MTurk-centric tech innovations'''
:Import badge concept from Amazon retail store; add filter option to highlight badged HITs
::Real Name
:::Opt-in , linked to credit card of requester
:::All HITs from that requester have Real Name badge
:::Goals
::::Badge increases accountability through attribution
::::Filter increases difficulty for unbadged HITs to attract workers, incentivizing requesters to opt in.
::"Real Purpose" + filter (still foggy)
:::Opt-in
:::Separate "purpose" dialog box on HIT preview page with "Does this seem credible?" button
:::HITs with a certain percentage of "yes" responses get "Real Purpose" badge
:::Goal: Badge increases disclosure and decreases alienation from work; Filter encourages growth of disclosure norm.
:Import Review system for HITs from Amazon retail; add "highest rated" to sort-by drop-down
::Character limit to reviews
::Include "Was this helpful" or Urban Dictionary-esque "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" to evaluate the reviews
::Supplements Turkopticon's requester-based review plug-in, which can be circumvented by requesters having multiple accounts.
::Goal: Add interactivity and immediacy to current feedback mechanism
::Question: Does this overlap too much with/obviate need for Real Purpose?
:Add social features for sense of community
::MTurk Livechat
::Simple box in corner of MTurk interface
::See Gwap for example
::Requester profiles: Picture, location, business aims?
:Minimum wage?
:Challenges
::Can all these features be implemented as external plug-ins? If not, how could Amazon be convinced to add features to a purposefully light, streamlined, "non-human" platform?
:::Social capabilities (counterintuitively) increase aggregate productivity by encouraging Turkers to 'hang out' on the site
:::Review system gives MTurk more long-term legitimacy as a site that cares about its workers
::For the features that can be implemented as plug-ins, how to get a critical mass of people to install the plug-in? I.e. how to avoid Turkopticon's apparent sparkle-and-fade?
'''2. More general tech ideas'''
:Non-profit/philanthropic platform (Extraordinaries)
::Alternatively, add "volunteer/philanthropic" to filter option in MTurk. But how to get Amazon to do this when they have zero monetary incentive (no cut for unpaid tasks, right?)
:Reputation Portability
::OpenID for digital labor platforms, where user identities come with basic reputation information?
::Something involving microformats, to make reputations "machine-readable"?
::Challenge: how to convince digital labor platforms that interoperable log-ins, etc. won't hurt their market share
::To do: E-mail Chris Messina


== The Worker-Owned Platform ==
== The Worker-Owned Platform ==

Latest revision as of 14:15, 15 January 2010

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