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Soylent Puts People In Your Word Docs

by Terrence O'Brien on November 5, 2010 at 09:00 AM

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Yes. It's people. We get it. It's also a novel way of addressing complex writing problems. Soylent is an add-in for Microsoft Word that crowdsources tasks, like shortening copy and proofreading text, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk marketplace. You pay a small fee to enlist the hive mind to help you out. You can even assign complex tasks, like changing the tense of an entire paragraph. Video after the break.

Tags: amazon, apps, crowd sourcing, CrowdSourcing, mechanical turk, MechanicalTurk, Microsoft Word, MicrosoftWord, soylent, top, word, writing

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