Archive - Apr 15, 2007

Analysis: McClatchy Pact Opens Door to Yahoo ‘a la Carte’

Authored by Peter Krasilovsky on April 15, 2007 - 1:19pm.

The WSJ is reporting that McClatchy, the publisher of 30 newspapers, is set to be the 12th newspaper publisher to join the Yahoo consortium, leaving behind Gannett and Tribune, which had hoped to work with McClatchy to build an alternative national ad network.

Amazon's Mechanical Turk: Cybersourcing?

Authored by Guy Kawasaki on April 15, 2007 - 12:17pm.

Amazon—yes the place you buy books from—has a cool service called the Mechanical Turk. It’s a system that enables people to complete online tasks (“HITS”) such as tagging, classifying, searching, grading, and transcribing. For example, you could pay people to do tasks such as: