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How exactly did you automated this? Isn't it nothing more than arbitrage? Why would I pay you $60 instead of hiring someone's on Odesk for $10?
Having this very narrow niche lets them really keep the quality level high as they can tweak and QA across multiple jobs doing the same thing.
I'm not a lawyer and don't know the intricacies of the CAN-SPAM Act, but I think one provision is that you can't contact people via harvested emails gathered by bots/scripts. But this is done on mturk manually by people?
This is awesome. It reminds me of this (but automated): http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/09/24/google-news-api-mturk-... You should take it one step further and automatize email sending to the authors collected.
If you look near the bottom of our home page, we thank him for the "inspiration".
I'm not a lawyer and don't know the intricacies of the CAN-SPAM Act, but I think one provision is that you can't contact people via harvested emails gathered by bots/scripts. But this is done on mturk manually by people?
Right, they automated the manual process of gathering email... which I think is still automation?
I am not sure how this tool is any better than buzzstream or followerwonk or ontolo ... Lots of cheap, free, or more robust tools that do the same thing... I don't recall the company but if you look at the data providers on removeem.com they use a company with 80 million webmaster emails, etc...