InnoCentive. "Win cash awards of up to $1,000,000 for your creative solutions to Challenges"
Flypaper. "The easiest way to create, edit and share interactive content that can be used for live presentations or over the Web"
Technology Review. "The authority on the future of technology." Published by MIT.
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Match Maker, Match Maker...
2008. The year of the online match-maker wars. History will recall the tens of thousands of teary-eyed singles cut down in the cross fire. Indeed, the web rivals were a match made in HELL!
Ok, I've already discussedfat overweight people on television. So now it's on to those annoying commercials for Chemistry.com or whatever it's called. You know the ones, with the poor souls thoroughly flummoxed by the rejection of their application by E-Harmony. But I'm digressing from what I really want to say.
I would really like to conduct a research study of the success of these various match-makers. I'm curious what effect, if any, their matching/comparison algorithms have on the outcomes of paired couples. Specifically, I wonder if people convince themselves that the man or woman they get matched with are "really great" only because some computer program tells them so. Admittedly, this would be a daunting task, separating out the effects of all the variables, but surely some freakonomist out there could crunch the data. There are probably some ethical issues, too, but come on... these people are rejects anyway. The computer said so.
Ok, I've already discussed
I would really like to conduct a research study of the success of these various match-makers. I'm curious what effect, if any, their matching/comparison algorithms have on the outcomes of paired couples. Specifically, I wonder if people convince themselves that the man or woman they get matched with are "really great" only because some computer program tells them so. Admittedly, this would be a daunting task, separating out the effects of all the variables, but surely some freakonomist out there could crunch the data. There are probably some ethical issues, too, but come on... these people are rejects anyway. The computer said so.
I Love Technology
This is simply amazing. I have a special affinity for technology that fuses dispersed visual content with an interactive experience. To echo some of the comments on the TED.com web page, this guy needs to get together with this guy. I seriously wish I had even the slightest clue how to design and build software like this - I'm lucky if I can get macros to function in Excel - because these applications are just so cool.
Let's hope that Microsoft doesn't muddle Photosynth all up.
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