Comments on: Is Microtask the Future of Work?

By: cha-am jamal

cha-am jamal — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:00:19 +0000

as a retired college professor, i am intrigued. can microtask be applied to education? although i never want to “go to work” again, i would love to continue to teach in a different context.

By: LR

LR — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:26:44 +0000

I do this kind of work already for another company. I LIKE IT. I can do it at home, and if I am working steadily, I can make about $10/hr. I get paid per piece of data entered. Moms tend to get interrupted 100 times a day, and this work is very amenable to interruption, so it’s one way for me to earn money that is completely flexible around MY schedule. What I do is enter handwritten or typed data from a pile of file cards that were all scanned in. OCR doesn’t work when there are several different people’s handwriting and typewriter styles. The data has standard fields, and I enter the records via a website portal.

By: Citizen Austinite

Citizen Austinite — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:08:40 +0000

I love the concept of atomizing the datum. It’s defeated so many attempts to make it cost effective.

Validation is a simple job, but it’s a menial and monotonous process for whoever performs it. Prone to mistakes when contracted at kph.

An xml file from a client, translated by the xsl of a game company, to become a ‘task in kind’ for the player to perform as in-game employment! Brilliant, and likely to be deployed as a just-in-time URL fetch when a player needs to buy something!

Now you’re creating real-world jobs for people who write the schemata, I’ll dub: “Extensible Datum Validation Markup Language(DVML), too!

By: Marios

Marios — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:02:22 +0000

Outsourcing microtast is absolute the future of work. Many people all over the world can be working on your next project you can have designers from Spain, and programmers from Russia working on your project, and the best thing is that you will get a support 24/7

Marios

By: nathaniel

nathaniel — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:37:31 +0000

Simply cannot wait to ‘micro-task’ for my next meal… in hell! This future doesn’t sound very enjoyable. I can see some of its allure, but seems like a quick way for even more dis-satisfaction in ones life. “It says here on this correctly filed in micro-task that you ‘fill in the blank’. I’m sorry but we will just have to deny you ‘fill in the blank’, please pursue our ‘fill in the blank’ for further comment micro-human.

By: Thiago Oliveira

Thiago Oliveira — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:43:45 +0000

The future: Work and get paid in gifts from FarmVille. This is the end of money…
And our future resumés will need only one line:
Previous experiences – Billions of stuff, you know…

By: research_paper

research_paper — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:13:56 +0000

Interesting post, though the concept is really not new, they are the first company I hear of seriously involved in tasks distribution. I am also sure it’s another step to more home-based jobs.

By: Jarzan

Jarzan — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:45:00 +0000

The MicroTasking actually is not that new concept, which is a fact with cloud computing and many other similar things as well. At least one person “diggings” this idea has seen how “cloud computing” and “role based mobility” really started to happen, and still, both are exciting but yet evolving concepts.

First step is to create the technology, 2nd is to create the hype and 3rd is to get “masses” to approve and use it. I thing that the timing of MicroTasking is good, many of the “old players” didn’t make it and the “oldish” workflow -people mostly missed the points (sorry about being direct).

The next question is that who actually changes the rules enough to change the market enough….

Cool stuff anyway….

cheers,