If you haven’t heard of Amazon Mechanical Turk, I highly suggest you check it out so you are aware of one of the more interesting pieces of web technology out there today. Basically, it’s a web service that allows you to programmatically allow humans to perform small bits of work for you. An example would [...]

One of my favorite parts of being a web worker is stumbling across a truly good website that you’d never heard of before. This happened to me yesterday by way of Douglas Karr’s Marketing Technology blog. A fellow named David Airey has been blogging about graphic design for 1 year now and is celebrating his [...]

I have to admit, I’m a sucker for gadgets. Especially ones that use super secret complex algorithms to generate numbers that protect my online bank account. Every 30 seconds, this compact device generates a new 6-digit code that is used to log in to my PayPal account. The algorithm is tied to a unique device [...]

This is the first post in a multi-part series on low-cost, high-return methods of hyper-local advertising. Call it targeted advertising. Call it audience demographics. I call it hyper-local. One of the nice side-effects of this rush to create (and join) a myriad of social networks is all the user meta information that is being collected. [...]

One of the more time consuming (and annoying) parts of doing freelance work is keeping track of time and money. For a long time, I had a large Excel spreadsheet that was broken up by client and project. At first, it worked fine. But, as I added more clients and more jobs, it became a [...]

If so, you’ll probably be interested in a website that has just launched called BetaJunkie.com. The basic premise of the site is to connect startup web companies who need people to beta test new web apps with people who enjoy being “early adopters” and beta testing. The site is still new and building up a [...]