“We
think of it as giving our customers more than they paid for.”
OKCupid
experiments with 'bad' dating matches
Dating website OKCupid has revealed that it experimented on its
users, including putting the "wrong" people together to see
if they would connect.
It
revealed the tests after the uproar over Facebook
manipulating the feeds of its users.
"If
you use the internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments
at any given time, on every site," it said. "That's how
websites work."
OKCupid
said one revelation was that "people just look at the picture".
As
well as allowing users to upload pictures and set up dating profiles,
OKCupid asks users questions and matches them with potential partners
based on the answers.
In
one experiment, the site took pairs of "bad" matches
between two people - about 30% - and told them they were
"exceptionally good" for each other, or 90% matches. "Not
surprisingly, the users sent more first messages when we said they
were compatible," Christian Rudder, one of the founders of
OKCupid, said in a blog
post on the company's research and insights blog.
Everything
my students will ever need to know about Copyright in one simple
flowchart! (Then again, maybe not.)
Flowchart:
Can You Use That Copyrighted Picture?
…
Before starting, you’d first need to be familiar with four terms:
copyright,
fair
use, creative
commons and public domain. With the help of this flowchart, it’s
easy to figure out where you stand with copyright law.
This
is interesting. It also suggests other “real user” review
possibilities.
–
Get a peek into the mind of your users. See and hear a 5-minute
video of a real person using your site or app. It’s fast and it’s
free. Getting the opinions of real people on your site
idea, your app idea, or your new site design can be invaluable
feedback, before launching. Find out what people like and dislike,
so you can make appropriate changes.
Oh
great. There's an App for that too? My Criminal Justice students
will love this.
The
App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home
When
I broke into my neighbor’s home earlier this week, I didn’t use
any cat burglar skills. I don’t know how to pick locks. I’m not
even sure how to use a crowbar. It turns out all anyone needs to
invade a friend’s apartment is an off switch for their conscience
and an iPhone.
This
was done politely: I even warned him the day before. My neighbor
lives on the second floor of a Brooklyn walk-up, so when I came to
his front door he tossed me a pair of keys rather than walk down the
stairs to let me in. I opened the door, climbed the stairs, and
handed his keys back to him. We chatted about our weekends. I drank
a glass of water. Then I let him know that I would be back soon to
gain unauthorized access to his home.
Less
than an hour later, I owned a key to his front door.
What
I didn’t tell my neighbor was that I spent about 30 seconds in the
stairwell scanning his keys
with software that would let me reproduce them with no specialized
skills whatsoever. The iPhone app I used wasn’t
intended for anything so nefarious: KeyMe was designed to let anyone
photograph their keys and upload them to the company’s servers.
From there, they can be 3-D printed and mail-ordered in a variety of
novelty shapes, from a bottle opener to Kanye West’s head. Or
they can be cut from blanks at one of KeyMe’s five kiosks in the
New York City area.
(Related)
One of many articles...
Amazon
Launches 3D Print Portal
If
proof were needed that 3D
printing is here to stay, we’ve got it in the form of a 3D
printing portal on Amazon. This dedicated
section of the online retailer highlights 3D-printed products
that can be customized, personalized, or merely just ordered.
Sellers of 3D-printed wares can apply
to be added to the portal. These products aren’t necessarily
cheap, but they are at the cutting edge of technology, which surely
adds value.
Dilbert
explains the route Steve Jobs did NOT take.
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