To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]
YouTube Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool Find music related to a chosen artist (tags: free web video google online music search videos media youtube research audio streaming project bands musique playlist discovery disco lastfm pandora artist radio suggest suggestion …)
What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google "You know how Google sometimes “predicts” what you might be searching for by giving you a little drop down menu of suggested search queries? These suggestions, of course, are based on what other users frequently search. So I tried teasing out some gender differences. Look at the [...]
People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return Recent analysis by the media research firm Nielsen asserts that 60 percent of Twitter users do not return from one month to the next. Thus far, Twitter has been considerably better at signing up users than keeping them. (tags: blog internet blogs news web2.0 [...]
Doodle – Easy Scheduling (online polls) 1. Create a poll, 2. Forward the link to the poll to the participants, 3. Follow online what the participants vote for. Free. No registration required. (tags: tools web free tool internet web2.0 social online productivity technology collaboration research gtd calendar survey poll polls agenda meeting meetings organisation planning [...]
Low cost usability testing We know usability testing is a pain. It’s expensive and time-consuming. As a result, it doesn’t happen enough. That’s why we built UserTesting.com—we wanted to bridge the gap between no user testing and expensive user testing. UserTesting.com lets you "look over the shoulder" of people in your target audience while they [...]
Immersive Media – amazing 360 degrees videos you can navigate Immersive Media’s key product is the Dodeca 2360, a camera named after the geodesic geometry of the Dodecahedron, on which the patent is based. The twelve-sided camera has eleven lenses which simultaneously record video. The twelfth side is the base of the camera. There is [...]
Passport RFID tags sniffed and cloned from a distance [video] Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses. The $250 proof-of-concept device – which researcher Chris Paget built in his [...]
SurveyMonkey.com – Online survey software made easy The simple way to create surveys. Intelligent survey software to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. Used by Moo.com (tags: survey monkey software web tools free tool internet business reference marketing online resources research statistics forms analysis poll polls webapps surveys surveymonkey moo …)
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. Why did the deal break down? [...]
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Search tip: Add "source:life" to any Google image search and search only the LIFE [...]
World Names Profiler Search for a Surname to view its Map and Statistics. (tags: fun reference cool search world History maps research statistics technology info information map people family genealogy names surnames surname name geography …)
We Feel Fine Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in (tags: aggregator art artistic blog blogging blogs community [...]