How Amazon is Cheating Millions, and Making Big Bucks Doing It

Believe it or not Amazon the huge internet retailer, comparable to Wal-Mart in the physical world has joined in the massive internet scam marketplace. Okay, they're not pulling off pyramid schemes or engaging in boiler room operations but they are doing something almost as bad. It's name, Mechanical Turk, its innovative way to make money online. Already, you should be suspicious. Apparently, it's name is derived from a wooden chess player that was believed to be run on artificial intelligence but actually had a Turkish chess player inside. And it seems innocent enough with its cute slogan, "Artificial Artificial Intelligence", but trust me, it isn't.
To summarize Mechanical Turk, it is a place where companies distribute small internet jobs such as data entry and labeling and hand a amounts of money for these jobs instead of paying individual workers to specialize in these things. The rewards can range from a penny to $20, requiring from 15 minutes to 2 months of your time. It lets workers complete "HITs" to make money, which will be channeled to you via mail.
Of course, that isn't all. There's a lot more that can be said.
To begin with, most tasks are long and gruelling, and can take days, for a few pennies. This is a distraction from what you should be doing, your job or finding a new job.
Also, this undermines users as ignorant idiots who can't do anything decent, giving them jobs like finding images and RSS URLs for websites. Of course, there is little to no reward for your effort and they set strict time limits on your work. If it isn't done by then, you'll be penalized in approval rating (which you need to "qualify" for other HITs). Can you see a relationship here? I sure can. Slavery.
And other than seeing all these people suffer for nothing, they have other benefits as well. Each time someone publishes a HIT, they get a part of the money that is supposed to go to the worker who completed it. Let's say they get 1% for each payout. For the 4,000 individual workers multiplied by the 100,000 HITs published every day, that turns into a lot of money at the loss of their users. Even Amazon has perpetrated the laws of internet ethics, even Amazon.

Black Friday Feature: Shop Online for the Fantastic Sales at Amazon

You wake up, you wash up, you eat breakfast, you drive to work, your boss yells at you, you go to a meeting, you finish that report and finally you come home, check on the news, eat dinner, watch House and go to bed. This is probably your basic daily schedule and I know it's not exactly easy to take a few hours, let alone a whole day, for shopping.
But you'll be glad to hear that you don't have to be scampering around malls to get Black Friday deals because Amazon, for the first time, is offering special prices on numerous items in time for this special day.
And it isn't just books either, they have tons of things in tons of categories such as cellphones, magazine subscriptions and even clothing. But you don't even have to wait that long because every few hours, Amazon introduces new "Gold Box" deals that give you great discounts before Black Friday arrives.
Moreover, the system of categorization that this website uses is extremely simple and will have you quickly finding exactly what you want. Further, if you thought they just host a few links to partners' sites, that's not the case. In fact, they actually sell each product themselves, and you can certainly trust such a company with any online purchases.
Let your friends go through the exhausting process of peeking into every store, crowded with people. You don't have to because Amazon's deals are just as good if not better and don't include the side effects of mall shopping.

Share Your Christmas Wish List With The World: Wishlistr

Have you ever wanted something really badly? I know I have and now there's a new way to use the web to share your wish list with others. Wishlistr has introduced something that's been a long time in the making.
With this website, you can create an account in literally less than 5 minutes then make a wish list of everything you've ever dreamed of (if you're like me, there's a lot of crap), filled with your own template, direct links to the items and short descriptions. Then, you can publish your wish list so the entire world can view
your daily cravings. And what really makes this a cool site is the fact that you can add friends by searching for their profiles. Or if you can't find them, just invite them to check out Wishlistr and your own little compilation.
Yeah, yeah. I know the same old story; you don't have time. Well, making a wish list only takes a few minutes and is unbelievably fun. Plus, with this site, you can effortlessly import a wish list from Amazon or your bookmarks on Delicious.
Another great feature of Wishlistr is the fact that you don't have to spend days shopping around for gift ideas. Just go over to their guide to today's hottest accessories, all categorized into specific areas.
Wishlistr is one thing you won't come across often so go over and try it out.

Check out my wish list at www.wishlistr.com/profile/notculpable