This is very slick from MIT. It’s pretty accurate, too, except I’m not sure where the yellow sport tag comes from unless you count yoga as a sport?
Would you please track back if you are blogging your ‘MIT’ characters, too? I am curious about how the analyser works on you as well :) So excited! /geek
Isofarro | 25-Aug-09 at 2:47 pm | Permalink
Trying out my real name first and I see it pulling in information about other people with the same name – the politician, the board member, the fitness trainer, the religious one.
Trying my pseudonym gives better results. Looks like the tool is pulling in what other people are saying about ‘the keyword’ directly (“I think”, “I know”) and analysing those statements for ‘behavioural-type’ keywords.
Its interesting. (Apparently I’m social – lol!)
http://isolani.co.uk/mystuff/persona.png
Mike
lingjie | 25-Aug-09 at 9:16 pm | Permalink
Hi Cathy, following your prompt, I had a go as well. It seems it has picked up a lot of info with other people of the same name. I was watching the whole process closely. there are a few research papers that should be credited to another ‘lingjie Wang’..
Anyway, it was fun. How did you publish this on your facebook?
cathyma | 25-Aug-09 at 10:35 pm | Permalink
I synced my Wordpress RSS with facebook so when you read notes on my facebook, it’s actually blogs updated here. I don’t think there’s an official share button with the result yet, so I’ve done a screen grab and uploaded that to Flickr then linked to this blog – quite a detour though :p
Yes for me turned my out name combination is still quite unique on the internet, so the data crawled is pretty accurate. Except there’s a very cute lady on facebook in bikinis – which is not me btw ;)
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Daniel Appelquist | 02-Oct-09 at 5:23 pm | Permalink
Similar result for me (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/torgo/3973450349/). Big “sports” bar and I’m pretty much a sports-moron. Maybe it’s from picking up my tweets on cycling in London? Also where is “fashion” coming from?
Dan
Margaret Gold | 19-Oct-09 at 9:41 pm | Permalink
Hey Cathy,
Very cool interface, and I love how they show the results. But mine is WAY wrong. Too many other Margaret Golds out there, so it was picking up on too many people’s data. I need a way to switch off sources I know are false sources.
And I got tons of input going in from geneology sites as well. Those would need blocking to make this more accurate.