The book I read to research this blog was Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer Guide which is an excellent book which I downloaded from kindle for free. I was a bit critical about how many web services Amazon because I thought it could do with streamlining but this is a good idea. Basically they have a website where you can advertise particular jobs like for example you want an iphone app written and then other people who are the workers can browse the site and see if they want to do that particular job. It isn't a proper job site like Monster.com it's just something people can do if they have a few hours spare. You can specify what skills they must and minimum qualifications and can even give them online tests via the website. When they do the job they can also download their materials or upload a file also via the website. You can specify things like a location and how many workers you want and if you are unhappy with their work you can refuse to pay them and ban them from working for you in future. Obviously what you offer to pay for a particular job and the number of hours it takes has to be competitive with the other jobs advertised. This site is particularly useful if you have a skill like to type or program. Even if you haven't got a skill it's worth looking at the site because there might be a job like doing market research in a particular area. Finally I also think you are expected to declare what you earn for tax etc.
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