mechanical turk
| 7:00AM 6/27/2011
If all you need is $5 worth of expert help, Fiverr has your number. For the price of a fast-food combo meal, this online marketplace will connect you with someone to proofread your business plan, repair an HTML bug, or whatever you might need. With 500,000 listings, it seems almost any service can be sold in $5 increments.
| 11:30AM 3/03/2011
Abraham Lincoln once said, "Whatever you are, be a good one." Perhaps this is the concept behind fiverr.com, a website where people can sling whatever wacky talent they may have for the low price of one of Lincoln's namesake bills - $5.
I bet you didn't know you wanted a beautiful confetti...
| 3:00PM 6/18/2008
Update May 2009: If you are addicted to Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, why not make some cash from your taste for trivia? There are many sites in addition to Amazon's Mechanical Turk where you can vie for the odd e-job, such as ShortTask.
The Internet is a great place to make some extra cash, or...