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One 2010 study by Dr. Ipeirotis of NYU estimated that some 40% of microtask requests from new employers who joined Amazon's Turk in a two-month period were actually used to create spam.
Big Firms Try Crowdsourcing Rachel Emma Silverman 2012
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Many firms that use crowdsourcing pay pennies per microtask to complete projects such as tagging or verifying data, digitizing handwritten forms and database entry.
Big Firms Try Crowdsourcing Rachel Emma Silverman 2012
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While workers are often paid in small amounts around a dollar or so per microtask, the work can be quite simple and quick to complete.
Forbes.com: News Rawn Shah 2010
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Effective implementation of a microtask requires hardware specialization to reduce dynamic power and power gating to reduce static power.
Gadget Freak Files 2010
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Pasha described a complete design flow for microtask implementation from C down to synthesizable VHDL, adding that initial estimates show power savings of one to two orders of magnitude better than that of microcontroller-based approaches.
Gadget Freak Files 2010
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Clickworker. com, Inc. is a global market leader in an emerging field called "microtask crowd-sourcing".
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The amount of time I used to spend completing one micro-task, saving, closing, starting up the second application, and performing the next microtask was absurd.
Geek.com 2009
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