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How Happy is the World Based on People’s Tweets? This Site Will Tell You

By Hazel Chua on 05/01/13 • Leave a comment!

Happiness Website

You can tell a lot about a person and his or her moods based on their tweets. Mathematicians Chris Danforth and Peter Dodds and scientists from the University of Vermont and the Mitre Corporation are well aware of that fact and have been working to gauge the world’s happiness based on the Twitter feeds of worldwide users since 2008.

They’ve collaborated to builda a piece of software called the Hedonometer which uses information pulled from Twitter Garden Hose to determine the world’s current happiness level.

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LivesOn Keeps Your Twitter Feed Alive, Even When You’re Dead

By Hazel Chua on 02/22/13 • Leave a comment!

Lives On

There’s a special group of Internet users that I call the Tweet Freaks. They’re the people who can’t go an hour without checking their Twitter feeds or posting updates about mundane stuff that no one else would really care about. If you have people in your network who’re like that, then you might want to tell them about _LIVESON. If you’re a Tweet Freak yourself, then I’m sure you’d love to heard about this as well. But just to make it less painful for everyone’s eyes, let’s call it LivesOn.

LivesOn is a Twitter tool like no other, promising to give you a ‘social afterlife’ once you pass in the physical world. It will ‘learn’ your tastes, preferences, and syntax by analyzing your current feed, so that it can continue posting status updates on the micro-blogging site even when you’re already dead. In short, LivesOn allows you to tweet from the grave, unless the person you appoint as your executor decides to give it the ax.

The service launches on March 2013.

VIA [ Cnet ]

Man Puts Himself Up For ‘Sale’ on Amazon–His Asking Price? A Job!

By Hazel Chua on 01/30/13 • Leave a comment!

This is Philippe Dubost, and he’s putting himself up for sale on Amazon. At least, that’s what he made it look like anyway.

What you see above is a screenshot of Philippe’s resume, and it’s definitely one of the most creative ones we’ve seen so far. He’s a web product manager, so it make sense that he’d choose this medium to show off his skills and qualifications. Obviously, the listing isn’t really up on Amazon (I’m sure they wouldn’t allow it anyway). Rather, it’s hosted on Philippe’s own domain, and he’s dubbed the page as an ‘Amaz-ing Resume’. Amaz-ing…get it?… Continue Reading

‘Doodle or Die’ is Kind Of Like ‘Draw Something’, Except You Play On a Browser Instead

By Hazel Chua on 01/18/13 • 2 Comments

Doodle or Die

Remember Draw Something, that interactive doodling game by OMGPOP that quickly went viral upon its release? Its popularity died out almost just as fast as it rose (I bet Zynga felt like slapping themselves silly since they acquired the developer for hundreds of millions at its peak) when mobile gamers moved on to the next hot thing in gaming.

Doodle or Die follows the same premise, since players are expected to enter random phrases and create drawings based on the phrases that other people have turned it. The difference is that you can play with random people and keep drawing and drawing without having to wait for turns. That, and the fact that it’s the players who decide what to draw in the first place. In short, I guess you can think of it as chain-drawing game of sorts where you alternate between drawing stuff and describing stuff as you play.

It’s amazing what some people on the site have drawn so far. You can check out a couple of impressive drawings done by other players after the break.

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Why Pay When You Can Do It For Free? Site Makes Fake Facebook Girlfriends for $10 Each

By Hazel Chua on 01/18/13 • 1 Comment

Namoro Fake

You might’ve heard all about how some people pranked footballer Manti Te’o into thinking that he had an online girlfriend. It was a pretty sick joke, made sicker by the fact that they ended the relationship with her fake death. The other side of the story to that is NamoroFake.

It’s a website that offers to create fake girlfriends for guys for whatever reason they may have: to make an ex-girlfriend jealous, to make their friends think they have a life, to make parents get off their case about finding a girl… At the very least, it’s a ridiculous idea and I can’t imagine anyone who’d be willing to pay top dollar for a fake profile of a girl. The fake girlfriend packages start at $10, which comes with only 3 comments and a measly 3-day validity. Cough up twice that amount and you’ll get a girlfriend for 7 days and 5 comments.

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Spam Your Network When the Ball Drops With Facebook’s Midnight Message Delivery

By Hazel Chua on 12/28/12 • Leave a comment!

Midnight Delivery

If you’re guilty of spamming your friends with random messages and basically useless mail this year, then it might be time to make a new year’s resolution to stop doing that in 2013. But before you do so, it’s time to get your last hurrah–and Facebook is going to make things easy for you with their new Midnight Message Delivery feature.

Of course, the point isn’t to spam them but to send them well wishes for the coming new year. It can get hard to tap or type messages one by one to all of the people you want to greet, so this app is basically the solution. Just pin the Facebook Stories app to your account, create lists of people who you want to message, and then compose your greetings. Facebook will take care of the rest and send them off to be received by January 1st, 2013.

You can check out the Midnight Message Delivery feature here.

VIA [ Gizmodo ]

Give Annoying Friends a Cyber Spanking with Defriendtion

By Hazel Chua on 12/07/12 • Leave a comment!

Defriendtion

People can be so annoying sometimes. Not just in real life, but also in the virtual world as well. Sometimes this annoyingness gets magnified to ridiculous proportions online, more often than not on their Facebook profiles because technically (and unfortunately), their pages happen to be their personal domains. Let’s go over a couple of examples for clarification’s sake:

Annoying case number one: the Braggart. This is the Facebook friend who can’t stop bragging about her recent trip to Dubai and the piles of Hermes bags that she’s got stacked in her closet. It’s annoying because, well, nobody likes a braggart.

Annoying case number two: the New Parent. These are the Facebook friends who can’t stop gushing about how cute their baby is and posting updates about the first burp, the first poop, the first tantrum, the first spit up, and so on and so forth. We get it, you have a baby and we have nothing against him or her. Just keep the TMI posts to yourself, please.

For these and all related annoyances that your friends regularly commit, there’s Defriendtion. Hit the break to check out a video that provides an overview of the app in the most hilarious way possible.

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Canoodle Dating Site Sets People Up Based on Their Mutual Facebook ‘Likes’

By Hazel Chua on 12/04/12 • 1 Comment

Match By Likes

Some people say opposites attract but I think couples with similar interests work just as well. After all, it takes a lot more than common (or uncommon) interests to keep a relationship going. But if you agree with the latter statement that similars attract, then you might be interested in Canoodle, which is the newest dating site on the block that hooks people up based on their Facebook likes.

The goal is to ease the pressure of coming up with a really good profile on users by making matches based on the things they’ve already ‘liked’ on Facebook instead. Communications manager for Cupid, the firm behind Canoodle, explained: “You’ve got your icebreakers there right away. Without having written anything about yourself, you’ve told a lot.”

While ‘liking’ a number of similar Facebook pages might not find you your perfect match straight away, it’s definitely a good start. What do you think?

VIA [ BuzzFeed ]

Where’s Chuck Norris? Google Gets In On the Joke–Well, Sort Of

By Hazel Chua on 10/15/12 • Leave a comment!

Chuck Norris Joke

Heard any good Chuck Norris jokes lately? No? Well, I have a couple for you. Before I pelt you with jokes, you’re probably already familiar with all the Norris-themed jokes and memes that are all over the Web these days. Never mind the whys and just enjoy the fact that we live in a Norris-dominated world these days. And he’s taking over Google.

Well, no, not really. Rather, a joke site has come up with a pretty creative way of showcasing the might of Chuck Norris. We won’t spoil too much for you, but instead, here’s what we want you to do:

1. Head on over to Google.com.
2. Type ‘Where is Chuck Norris?’ in the search field.
3. Click on the first result you get.
4. Laugh. (We didn’t really need to tell you to do this now, did we?)

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