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Squidoo is a community website based in Irvington, N.Y. that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest.
Lenses are interactive, and you can add
Flickr photos,
Google Maps, blogs,
Amazon items,
eBay,
videos,
Zazzle stores,
CafePress stores, start a
PhotoPhight, start a
Twttrstrm,
start a debate,
write movie reviews, write
book reviews, showcase your
ShopIt page, build a
Ink City Tattoo lens, tell the world what you think the
best thing ever is, make a lens about your favorite actor, musician or
even yourself, and much more. Squidoo is in the top 500 most visited sites in the world, and in the top 250 most viewed in the United States. Squidoo has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charity."
Check out
my lenses to get an idea of the many money making possibilities that Squidoo presents. Find more useful tools and information at
SquidLinks.
Leave Your Rating BelowSquidoo is by far my favorite way to
work from home and
make money online. There are a lot of different things you can do at Squidoo.com. You can make a lens for just about anything. Even
X-Rated lenses! But you won't make any money from those. The money you make comes from
Google AdSense that Squidoo integrates into your lens, along with other ads. You can choose to opt out of revenue sharing or you can share the revenue with Squidoo, or you can also donate some or all of your earnings to charity.
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Amazon Mechanical Turk (
MTurk) is one of the suites of
Amazon Web Services, a
crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.
Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs.
Workers (called
Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the somewhat limited Mturk Requester site.
Requesters can ask that workers fulfill qualifications before engaging a task, and they can set up a test in order to verify the qualification. They can also accept or reject the result sent by the Worker, which reflects on the Worker's reputation. Currently, a requester has to have a U.S. address, but workers can be anywhere in the world. Payments for completing tasks can be redeemed on Amazon.com via gift certificate or be later transferred to a worker's U.S. bank account. Requesters, which are typically corporations, pay 10 percent of the price of successfully completed HITs (or more for extremely cheap HITs) to Amazon."
Leave Your Rating BelowAmazon Mturk is a great way to
work from home and
make money online. The pay can be quite low for some projects but there are always new jobs coming in and some of them do pay quite well. If you put in enough time then you can see a decent amount of earnings.
