I've always wished Delicious would get more social and more niche-y. One particular idea I'm interested in is to uncover user bookmarking patterns and not just bookmark popularity. I wonder if this this clone experiment would play with these ideas:
+ Finding the people who shared the same bookmarks as you, and also measure how different they are from you: This might uncover bookmarks and areas of interests that weren't on my radar.
+ Look for users who have similar tagging patterns: Finding similar people would be handy, then I could subscribe to their bookmarks. Delicious has a feature called the user's Top 10 Tags. I wonder if there is a way to compare how similarly you tag with other users to find similar users?
+ When performing a search, look for the most popular bookmarks and the most unpopular to find more esoteric and possibly interesting items.
+ An RSS feed for people who bookmarked the same thing I did: as a way to find new people who share the same interests as you.
Good print designers will know the possibilities and limitations of the medium they're working in. I think the same can be said about the screen medium.
I love where this is going. One thing that I would like to see included, which is absolutely essential for the way I design website is line-height: it is the core structure of my design and layout. (Read more about line-heights and vertical rhythms here: http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm)
At this moment in time I feel trapped using Adobe products to produce my layouts. If jMockups solves the following problems in priority, I will make the switch!
Font rendering: I realize jMockups might only render "web-safe" fonts. But I would love to see an iteration that incorporates any typeface shared between a team of designers who have fonts locally stored. I have made attempts to switch to Inkscape, but it's inability to render different type formats is what is holding me back from using it.
Drawing path tools: This would be handy if I needed to create arrows and icons. I suppose I could draw them and import them as images; however, it would be really nice if I can draw them in directly!
There's some hacks for detecting which fonts are available on your computer, so I could, in theory, let you use any of them. And since the product is an image it wouldn't matter if the person you shared it with didn't have it. I'll see what I can do.
1. You can't smell the product when you're in the store, so you have to know more about the product either through brand awareness or referral.
2. Like cologne, the smell you give off from a deodorant is about projection. Who you want to smell like is probably going to be more of a priority to potential customers than what you want to smell like.
I'm loving this new advertising strategy, but I'm still not going to buy this product. They've done a great job of making more people aware of the product, but I can't shake the image of my grandfather when I think of Old Spice! (which is not a bad thing, I just don't want to smell like grandfather!)
Actually I've always associated the "new" Old Spice scent with overdone cheap (male) perfume - like that Axe Body spray and others usually used in copious amounts by teenagers/20somethings.
I think the underlying assumption is that by selecting traits that one has relatively little control over (foot size, thigh length, etc.), then showing participants a physically unrelated trait (i.e. the face), that they're somehow insulating from contemporary culture.
One could still make the critique that contemporary culture values as attractive traits that are correlated with these other markers, whereas other cultures and times do not, but that argument starts getting a little convoluted itself.
Keep in mind that this work hasn't yet been published (just reported at a conference), so the actual paper will probably be a bit more careful about claims that they make.
Most video games have a pretty strict narrative: Finish the story or die. The ending of that story is often firm: I've rarely come upon a video game that actually has different outcomes based on the user's behavior/history.
While Honda, Toyota, and many companies in the Japanese robotics space do devote quite a lot of resources to thinking about the elderly population, a significant amount of the R&D work done is not done with the intent of being immediately productizable, but rather to do basic R&D and to fly the company flag. (See Asimo or, indeed, any robot which looks remotely like a human. Or the gigantic eight-legged spider robot who existed to wave a large fan at people that my tech incubator made, which existed to say "Look at us, we're capable of making a gigantic semi-autonomous eight legged robot with one functional limb which you could mount all sorts of things that are not cooling devices on.")
It's good to read this again because I couldn't put my finger on it before: despite the ingenuity of the storage system, this guy is living with so much stuff that it feels claustrophobic.
+ Finding the people who shared the same bookmarks as you, and also measure how different they are from you: This might uncover bookmarks and areas of interests that weren't on my radar.
+ Look for users who have similar tagging patterns: Finding similar people would be handy, then I could subscribe to their bookmarks. Delicious has a feature called the user's Top 10 Tags. I wonder if there is a way to compare how similarly you tag with other users to find similar users?
+ When performing a search, look for the most popular bookmarks and the most unpopular to find more esoteric and possibly interesting items.
+ An RSS feed for people who bookmarked the same thing I did: as a way to find new people who share the same interests as you.