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A2Z Development Center, an Amazon.com company, is very excited to announce its newest center in Palo Alto, California! We are developing consumer applications based on Amazon Web Services.
UnSpun: Find the Best, the Worst, Vote Your Opinion, Create Your Own Lists
We are currently working on UnSpun, which lets users create, populate, and vote on lists, using Mechanical Turk.
We started to build UnSpun as a sample application of Mechanical Turk, but we got a bit carried away when we realized how fun and useful the lists and rankings are. We saw that existing methods for community collaboration on the Web aren't good at developing consensus rankings. If you do a web search for "sexiest movies," you might find websites that have lists of "sexiest movies," but each will be the opinion of the individual who authored that website.
Wikis (as prominently and beautifully exemplified by Wikipedia) are an excellent mechanism for community collaboration, but they don't support consensus rankings. Imagine a large group of people editing and re-editing a wiki page that purported to have a ranked list of "sexiest movies." It wouldn't work—they'd step on each other.
So that's the niche that UnSpun endeavors to fill.
If you want to see the community consensus on what's the best or the worst, the scariest or the funniest, the tastiest or the dumbest, UnSpun provides the right amount of structure to make that possible.
Join us!
We are currently seeking talented individuals to grow our team! We offer competitive compensation packages, including comprehensive health care, stock, and the opportunity to use and contribute to Amazon.com's cutting edge technologies. Our office is in downtown Palo Alto, steps from the Caltrain Station, great resturants, and shopping.
See our job descriptions and come join our team!
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