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Welcome to the Internet Breaking News.
In our hectic lives, many people may not have the time to do all the nitty gritty jobs
and need some extra help.
Now you can ask for help online and you'll be able to find someone to complete those jobs on time.
A web developer has set up a website specifically to provide 'runners' for this service.
The website has only been running for 4 months, but it has already attracted over 1000 runners
developing a new networking industry.
So how does it work?
Would it attract inappropriate requests?
Internet Breaking News explains.
Login into the webpage and enter the task to be done.
Then wait for a runner to bid for the job.
As soon as both parties agree on the terms, the runner will begin the task.
This website was set up 4 months ago.
To date it has already completed over 100 tasks.
One of the more entertaining tasks was sorting through all the colours of the M and M's to pick out only the brown ones.
This customer wanted to give it to his girlfriend as a present.
He paid $150.
Others ask for help to clean windows, cook or do everyday shopping.
Deng Shihui has been a runner for 1 month.
To date she has completed 3 tasks.
For a small fee, you can give a hand.
So if you were in that particular part of Singapore and you had some time, then you could go over and help out.
There are a variety of tasks, so you can gain different experiences from them.
To guarantee the quality of the runners, they are interviewed face to face. 40 reliable runners with specialised skills have been recruited.
Several housewives and students have also joined the runners workforce to earn some pocket money in their free time.
As anyone can use this platform, the webmaster is highly aware of the importance of data security and is also extremely vigilant towards any potential abuse.
Apart from being a runner himself, he has also gone online to recruit other runners to ease the problem of workforce shortage.
Program and webpage designer Huang Ruijin used a runner to take photographs and details of businesses to establish a database.
We did not have the time to wait for the professionals as they normally needed a week to give us their quotes.
We would normally need to complete our jobs within 2-3 days.
So we found Task Amigo on the internet.
Within 3 hours we found someone suitable to do the job.
She was paid $125.
Hiring a professional photographer would have cost at least $1000.
In order to prevent customers from abusing this service, the webmaster moderates the requests.
When a task is posted on our system, our administrator will receive an sms/text message.
If we think that the task is not appropriate, we will remove it from the platform instantly.
To ensure that they will be responsible for their activities online, all uses have to register with their identity cards and mobile phone numbers .
There were some who have posted tasks looking for a companion to talk to or dine with.
But normally these sorts of requests will not attract any responses.
Internet Breaking news will see you next week!