There’s a nice little write-up on Techcrunch today on the Hunch Twitter Predictor Game, a fun little quiz which asks you a series of questions and then predicts your answers to them, simply based on entering your twitter account details. In other words, the game profiles you according to your Twitter habits (who you follow, who follows you etc) and then predicts your answers to some questions – with surprising accuracy it seems (I’ve tried it with a friend and in both cases Hunch guessed correctly over 90% of the time).
All this represents a pretty cool little diversion for a lunch break at work and will no doubt prove popular as any original spin-offs for Twitter are these days. However, what…
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Simon Garfield of the Guardian has this week interviewed Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and the result is a very interesting and detailed article on Guardian online. One of the most curious things to emerge from it is Zuckerberg’s frequent emphasis on ’sharing’, which he sees as Facebook’s most primary function. But Garfield is astute to highlight the importance of asking ourselves; just what exactly are we sharing, why, and for whose benefit?
The issue is not a new one in relation to FB; we all remember the disasterous and intrusive compulsory Beacon app, which monitored user spending habits and harvested the info for corporate clients. Understandably the user backlash was so swift and severe that FB quickly pulled the app –…
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