web Imagini's Visual DNA Aims To Improve Social Networking Imagini Friends is an unusual new social network, that calculates your "VisualDNA" and uses it to find other people that match your choices. It's an application of Imagini, the technology - which aims to understand the emotional preferences of consumers, using VisualDNA. This can be used for marketing and advertising purposes, as well as… Richard MacManus View comments
News Windows Vista Hits New Zealand Stores First New Zealand is the first country to experience the worldwide consumer launch of Windows Vista on 30 January, due to its position on the timeline. New Zealanders get the opportunity to buy Windows Vista in retail stores a few hours before Australians, 13 hours before the UK and a day ahead of Americans. The 2007 Microsoft Office system is being… Richard MacManus View comments
Identity Poll: Do You Ever Fake Your Online Identity? In this week's R/WW poll, we're asking whether you ever fake your Web identity - or even just part of it. Note that this doesn't count times when you are anonymous on the Web (such as almost all snarky blog comments). We're specifically asking about the times when you use an identity - e.g. online dating, peer-to-peer transactions sites such as… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the analysis. Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: "Google." Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search… Charles Knight, AltSearchEngines editor View comments
Analysis Nobody Knows You're A Dog 2.0 Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus On the internet it is easy to pretend to be somebody else. DonÄôt like your name, adopt a new one. DonÄôt like the way you look, Photoshop your picture. Think you are too young or too old, select a new age. How is anybody going to find out anyway? As the now classic… Jitendra Gupta View comments