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Crowdsourcing web design

Winner!

On weekends and evenings, I am helping to launch a start up social networking site called yasnap.com. It’s an interesting idea, I think, but a topic for another day. Today, I want to talk about our experience using 99Designs.com.

99Designs.com is a marketplace for web design. You post a proposal for the job […]


No one knows you’re a dog…

I guess it’s hard to have an original idea anymore! Here’s a cartoon from June 23, 2007 that is remarkably similar to the idea I posted about earlier this week (”Can you be fooled by a dog on facebook?“)

And more follow up. Here’s a story about a political blogger who posts under the […]


Stumbling onto human computation

I have recently become a big fan of StumbleUpon. With a single click, you can transported to wild and wonderful things on the Internet based on recommendations from other web surfers. Using this service, I stumbled on this amazing video on human computation. After watching the video, I realize that StumbleUpon itself […]


Morph madness

Morphing has been around for awhile, but I guess processing power is so cheap that this site, MorphThing.com, can offer as a free online service. Jeremy Bailenson, a professor in my department at Stanford, has made a nice little research program out of using morphing technology as an experimental manipulation. For example, see how […]


Image processing - wow!

Right now, everyone knows that pictures may not tell the truth because they can be “photoshopped.” But the ease, speed and accuracy of this technique is stunning. Can you imagine all the creative, practical and nefarious uses of this technology? Via techcrunch with useful other links.

UpdateYou can process your own images here. […]