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...radar” and a list of “confidants.”The radar displays possible romantic interests the user has tagged on the Web site, the creators explain. Friends given special access by users become confidants—people able to peruse that user??s radar list and leave comments and suggestions meant to help chart the course of love.At last week’s award ceremony, Galkowski demonstrated what he projects to be the standard operating procedure of a Check My Radar user.“I am going to look for guys...
...When interactive media first came out, people would go to arcades and it was a social experience,” says Decker. “Then it receded into a geek stereotype, and now it’s [about] meeting real life.”A USER??S MANUAL“We had humble beginnings,” says Li. “We were looking for more people to play ‘Civilization IV,’” a popular computer game. “We were sure more people played on campus...
...acquaintance of mine have the right to release my information to any advertising company that asks? Gmail, notoriously, already uses a client’s e-mail content and searches to provide specifically correlated advertisements in the margins—but at least such information is wholly under the user??s control...
Unlike Facebook.com, MySpace.com does not delete profiles of the deceased. In fact, another site called MyDeathSpace.com exists solely to catalog them. Launched in December of 2005, MyDeathSpace.com displays a MySpace.com user??s cause of death and any related news articles alongside a picture of the deceased linked to their MySpace.com profile. Because MySpace.com is most popular amongst people college-aged and younger, the deaths are usually tragic (suicides, automobile accidents, and murders) or completely abnormal (a kid killed by a rare cancer, two teens found dead with their heads inside an 8-foot helium balloon). According...
...McLean-Foreman, along with schoolmates Jennifer Y. Lee ’04, James J. Albertine ’04, Devin Lyons-Quirk ’05 created the site, which launched in August. Unlike other weight-loss websites, McLean-Foreman said Traineo tries to get a community behind user??s efforts to shed pounds. Traineo sends weekly e-mail updates to chosen family members or close friends, keeping these “monitors” posted on the user??s training, caloric intake, and weight change. Most users give up on their diet plans because...