November 11, 2006
share your look beta
ShareYourLook is an online community for fashion addicts, trendsetters, shoppers, and designers from around the world to share looks and ideas about personal style.
See how people in Tokyo, Stockholm, or Idaho are putting their own spin on the latest trends. Discover what men and women in London and New York are coveting this season. Best of all, discover how other people’s style can influence your look. ShareYourLook is designed to inspire and inform, so we encourage helpful comments and thoughtful critiques.
Posted by richard ting at November 11, 2006, 02:58 PM
FashMatch
FashMatch is an online community for anyone who shares a love for clothes, fashion and dressing stylishly.
FashMatch is based on two things: The first one is fun. Creating your own looks via the terrific brands FashMatch not only provides you with an endless source of entertainment, but also saves you time finding the look that is right for you. The second one is sharing the fun! Like a great friend, FashMatch is the ideal companion, offering to the visitors an opportunity not to only be their own stylist but also an influence and inspiration someone else.
Posted by richard ting at November 11, 2006, 02:03 PM
September 04, 2006
NetworthIQ Social Network + Money Blogs
NetworthIQ is a social personal finance manager designed to make monitoring your net worth easy and fun. It's a social networking site that is for money fanatics what MySpace has become for the music-obsessed. Users sign up and create profiles based on their net worth. They can then compare themselves with others by age, income, job, or geographic location, link to other users, and track their progress on a blog. NetworthIQ is the first production of Fourio, a startup based in Portland, Oregon.
Check out the site.
Also, while we're on the subject of personal finance, give these personal finance blogs a glance.
myopenwallet.blogspot.com
moneyblognetwork.com
pfblog
Posted by richard ting at September 04, 2006, 03:44 AM
August 16, 2006
Flixster
Flixter is a better way to pick movies. You can rate movies, add friends, and get recommendations, but where do you actually rent or buy them? There are a lot of nice features in this site, but they seem better served as part of a Netflix site rather than as a standalone offering.
Posted by richard ting at August 16, 2006, 03:12 PM
June 20, 2006
MOG - Music Social Network
Share your musical tastes with just a few clicks of the mouse. The world can see what you listen to. For real. For free.
Find others like your self. MOG automatically points the way.
Express your thoughts on music and everything else. MOG supports full blogging.
Posted by richard ting at June 20, 2006, 12:39 PM
June 13, 2006
Three In Five Teens Visit Social Networking Sites
[via mediapost]
MORE THAN THREE OUT OF five Web users between the ages of 13 and 17 have visited social networking sites like MySpace, with the majority of those who visit also joining such sites, according to a new study of teens' online media habits by Burst Media.
The study, based on a May survey of approximately 1,800 teens, found that 61 percent of teens have gone to an online social networking site, with females more likely to have done so (68 percent) than males (54 percent). Sixty-one percent of those who visited a social networking site went on to become a member.
Despite the apparently disproportionate number of teen girls visiting networking sites, teen boys remain heavier online users overall; 40 percent of male teens said they spend at least three hours a day on the Web outside of school, compared to 35 percent of female teens.
Posted by richard ting at June 13, 2006, 09:59 AM
March 04, 2006
Carspace
Carspace.com is Edmund.com's automotive lifestyle social networking site, which launched February 2006. It's Edmund's bid to apply the social networking model of MySpace.com to folks who tune, race, and obsess over cars.
Posted by richard ting at March 04, 2006, 01:35 AM
February 11, 2006
Riya -- Face Recognition Software
Riya is a photo search engine based on face recognition software. Once you upload your pictures it allows you to identify and tag everyone in the picture. The mission of the site is to enable you to track every single picture of you on the Internet. Although it’s still in Beta, the word on Riya is spreading fast.
Posted by richard ting at February 11, 2006, 08:08 PM
January 26, 2006
BroadbandSports.com
BroadbandSports.com is a video-only sports portal that allows viewers to watch professional and user-generated sports videos and offers capabilities to "tag," search, find, store and replay videos any time, anywhere. The site was launched to make sports video programming easily available and features an interactive community where devotees can share, view and discuss, rank and rate videos. Users can also receive notification of new programming based on "tags," a service similar to 43things,Technorati, and Flickr.
Posted by richard ting at January 26, 2006, 10:12 AM
December 10, 2005
Questionize
This was sent to me by Corstiaan Hesselink from the Netherlands. As the name implies, the website is about questions. It's about asking questions, but also about answering questions. It's a community where no question is too simple and no question too complicated. The website is live but some parts are still under construction (beta).
Posted by richard ting at December 10, 2005, 06:24 PM
November 14, 2005
Tape It Off The Internet
'Tape It Off The Internet' is a global TV guide with Torrent tracking, your favourites tracking, and peer recommendations with an innovative social layer. The site is only a few weeks old and still in Beta version, so be patient with it. Conceptually, I think it's a home run especially with how they leverage in those Web 2.0 type social network features. It just allows the experience to extend in so many different directions.
Posted by richard ting at November 14, 2005, 02:24 PM
August 31, 2005
justcurio.us
justcurio.us is an anonymous question and answer system, open to anyone, with one simple rule: to ask a question, you must first answer someone else's question. Question yields answer yields question. Strangers helping strangers.
The questions can be about anything — the best Beatles album, your saddest moment, your worst fear, your biggest regret, your fondest childhood memory, the meaning of life, whether you should break up with your girlfriend, the best crepe place in Paris, the best cure for loneliness. Anything at all. This is our chance to lean on each other, to look to a stranger for help, to discover what other people think.
justcurio.us is entirely confidential, allowing anyone to ask and answer questions with complete anonymity.
Posted by richard ting at August 31, 2005, 04:51 PM
August 28, 2005
Current TV
Current is about what's going on: a look at what's new in culture, style, technology, music and more, with much of the content produced by viewers themselves. The viewer produced, bite-sized documentary format gives us the scoop on what's cool. Watch clips of gang members getting their tattoos erased to modern pre-fab houses being built.
Posted by richard ting at August 28, 2005, 11:40 AM
July 15, 2005
My Social Fabric
Here's a social networking project by Steven Blyth from the Interactive Institue in Ivrea. It's called Social Fabric which is a representation of your social world, displayed as a single visual array on your mobile phone. It does not replace your address book or calendar but keeps you subtly informed about which relationships are prospering, which you have neglected, and the overall state of your social fabric. What a brilliant idea.
Posted by richard ting at July 15, 2005, 05:15 PM
October 19, 2004
Internet Retailer Buys Social Networking Site
[by Gavin O’Malley]
Internet retailer Buy.com announced Monday it had acquired social-networking start-up Metails.com. The move appears to be in line with a marketing strategy that involves fostering relationships based on like-buying-habits, proffering the products and brands du jour, and offering cash incentives to users willing to facilitate the affiliate marketer role.
Metails.com was launched in January by Jared Morgenstern and a couple of his Harvard pals. The company, said Morgenstern, is an online social network with a purpose--and by purpose he means generating a profit other than advertising revenue. Metails.com's management said it was in the process of raising additional capital when Buy.com, then an independent partner-retailer, expressed interest in purchasing the company.
Buy.com is not the first site to integrate a social network in the hope that it will pay off. Overstock.com recently announced that its new auction site contained a similar networking aspect.
Posted by richard ting at October 19, 2004, 11:15 AM
August 02, 2004
College networking website attracts following
The latest niche networking site to have the online community talking is TheFacebook.com. Founded earlier this year by Harvard undergrad Mark Zuckerberg, the site was initially created exclusively for Harvard students as a more interactive version of the popular college facebook. Users post profiles that include photos, lists of friends, classes, vacation plans, and should they choose, personal contact information; messaging is also available.
The site proved popular so quickly (4,300 members within the first two weeks) that Zuckerberg decided to open the site to other elite schools. The site now has a user base of almost 40 other colleges, such as Berkeley, Michigan, and Duke. Designed for students and alumni, users can only see their own school's section of the site. If only we had TheFacebook back in college, maybe we would've finally met that class crush we never had the guts to approach.
Posted by richard ting at August 02, 2004, 12:15 PM
June 18, 2004
Self Interest, Reciprocity, eBay's Reputation System
Self Interest, Reciprocity, eBay's Reputation System
By Howard on The Evolution of Reputation
Chris Dellarocas, who I interviewed for Smart Mobs, now Associate Professor at MIT Sloan School, has published a new paper on Self Interest, Reciprocity, and Participation in Online Reputation Systems
Posted by richard ting at June 18, 2004, 01:22 AM
May 19, 2004
Urban Pioneer Project (UPP)
An art project/social experiment
Artist Andrew Van Hook’s Urban Pioneer Project (UPP) is creating a place in history for modern city dwellers. The Web-based project is essentially an archive of individuals’ lives, complete with photos of personal spaces, lists of refrigerator contents, and responses to a series of questions that include “Dream job” and “Favorite restaurant”, among many others. Urban Pioneers apply to join via the website and, upon being accepted, are given a number and certificate and are then expected to complete a profile that gives voyeurs a glimpse into their lives. However, only other Urban Pioneers can view these slide show-formatted profiles. Other perks to being a Pioneer include access to Urban Pioneer parties, gallery openings, online content, and social and professional networking opportunities. While less selective networking sites, such as Friendster and MySpace, are growing to monster proportions, the application-necessary UPP illustrates the burgeoning demand for filtration, as well as a desire for online interaction that leads to in-person experiences. Van Hook does not want the project to grow infinitely and plans on putting a halt on the applicant pool when it gets too large. While Van Hook first got the word out about the UPP through silhouette imaged stickers plastered all over New York City, the stickers are now making international appearances in cities such as Berlin, Buenos Aires, and London, and those in-the-know are signing up.
Posted by richard ting at May 19, 2004, 08:02 PM
September 09, 2003
Policy Analysis Market - Wikipedia
Policy Analysis Market - Wikipedia
The Policy Analysis Market (PAM) was a proposed futures exchange developed by the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and based on an idea first proposed by Net Exchange[1], a San Diego research firm specializing in the development of online markets. PAM was to be a "a market in the future of the Middle East", and would have allowed trading of futures contracts based on possible political developments in several Middle Eastern countries. The theory behind such a market is that the monetary value of a futures contract would be reflective of the probability of the event it is tied to occurring, as market actors rationally bid a contract either up or down based on reliable information. One of the models for PAM was a political futures market run by the University of Iowa, which has allegedly proven more accurate in predicting the outcomes of U.S. elections than either opinion polls or political pundits. PAM was also inspired by the work of George Mason University economist, Robin Hanson.
Posted by richard ting at September 09, 2003, 09:21 PM
August 27, 2003
Jonah Bruckner Cohen - BumpList
BumpList in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/31/technology/circuits/31diar.html
A Behavioral Experiment and United Faiths
By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL
Bumpy Ride
Among the thousands of e-mail based discussion groups, many are private and clublike, while others are public and raucous. But there's nothing else quite like BumpList (www.bumplist.net).
BumpList, a discussion forum with no defined topic, allows just six subscribers at a time. When a new person joins, a subscriber is bumped off to make room. To rejoin you must resubscribe, bumping someone else, and so on.
To stay on the list for any significant time requires numerous resubscriptions - the list calls itself "an e-mail community for the determined." So far, more than 1,700 people have joined at least once and there have been 1,300 resubscriptions. (I lasted just 10 hours and 25 minutes before my first bump.)
BumpList is a sort of art project as behavioral experiment. "I want to get people to think about the culture and process of these lists," said Jonah Brucker-Cohen, the site's creator and a researcher in the Human
Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe, an institute in Dublin. For example, the structure of BumpList prevents cliques from forming, making it more "democratic" than most lists, he said.
But that structure also makes it difficult to keep a conversation going, and a dialogue is, after all, the point of a discussion list. "Theoretically, it is possible to have a serious, sustained conversation on BumpList," said Michael Paulukonis, a technology professional in Scranton, Pa., who is a BumpList member, by e-mail. "Practically speaking, I don't think it has happened - unless you consider the dialogue the
resubscribers have with the medium itself."
Mr. Paulukonis has resubscribed to BumpList 148 times since it started up in June. Indeed, the experience has been so frustrating that devotees of BumpList have started a separate Yahoo group to talk about it
(groups.yahoo.com/group/bumplistgroup) since the list itself "militates against discussion," as the group's home page puts it.
