“a demographic study was done on the Mechanical Turk community and the researcher found 70% of Turkers are from the US, over half are women, mostly in the 20-30 age group, and over half have college degrees”

that’s not exactly the target group i would like to look at. but it’s not sooo far off either, so i might give it a spin.

are there any similar services?

re language: given the low price, I might as well give it a try for a german website – I guess if I write my request in german, only german-speaking turkers (wasn’t aware of that name ) will answer.

re public URLs: it sure is fine with me this way!

I do recommend asking 3-5 questions. 10 might not see such enthusiasm from the Turker community. As for paying the Turkers… I pay well for the review HITs to get quick responses and accurate ones. If you were to visit MTurk and pay what I pay you’ll find it is more worth your while to just use feedbackarmy.com.

For your German to English question: a demographic study was done on the Mechanical Turk community and the researcher found 70% of Turkers are from the US, over half are women, mostly in the 20-30 age group, and over half have college degrees.

The public URL is a bit of a user experience experiment. I don’t know about you but I get frustrated every time I have to sign up for an account to do something. How many usernames and passwords do I need on the web? I know there is OpenID and all that jazz but this is my attempt to see if I can eliminate friction from the process and see if users are willing to accept this trade off of potential openness for convenience. Maybe not. But I want to challenge the status quo of an account for everything, nothing, and whatever is in between.

Hope this helps clear up some of your questions and thank you for taking the time to write about your experience. — Raphael