LinkedIn Updates CardMunch App—The Business Card Scanning App That Uses Real Humans
LinkedIn has added some features to its CardMunch iPhone app. Now, instead of just turning a photo of a contact’s business card into a contact on your phone, you can also view that contact’s LinkedIn profile and learn all the usual things one learns by viewing a LinkedIn profile.
Why do people love Cardmunch so much? Apparently the accuracy is very high—as well it should be, as Cardmunch sends the images of the business cards to service providers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, an online “outsourcer” that matches workers up with menial online tasks.
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