Persuasive Technology
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Looking at how websites, software applications, and mobile devices can be used to change people's attitudes and behavior.
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Google sheds light on 'Dark Web' by searching scanned documentsGoogle has added optical character recognition technology to its search engine, which allows for scanned PDF documents to be indexed and searched.Matt Morain added 12 months ago
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Location-Based Dating: Not New, Still CreepyFrom Webmonkey, more food for thought on the interpersonal impacts of ambient findability.Matt Morain added 13 months ago
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Be who you want on the web pages you visitThis came straight out of left field for me. I imagine this ties into OpenSocial somehow? Sent to you by James via Google Reader: Be who you want on the web pages you visit via The Official Google Blog by Karen on 7/8/08 Posted by Niniane Wang, Engineering Manager A while ...
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16 months ago
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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse - ReadWriteWebFor 2007, our Best Web LittleCo was Twitter, the microblogging/status application that captured the collective attention of Silicon Valley at SXSW last winter and has been on a ...
Al Craig
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Location-Based Dating: Not New, Still CreepyMatching two people based on taxonomic chemistry? Easy. Matching two people based on GPS-embedded proximity? Too convenient.Matt Morain added 13 months ago
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Is Google Making Us Stupid?I found myself skimming as well. But is that true for all my reading? I have definitely learned to selectively skim content from my online reading, which has carried over to print material, but when I'm reading good fiction or an article (online or in print) that I'm really interested in I tend ...James Lazo added 17 months ago
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Is Google Making Us Stupid?I caught myself starting to skim this at paragraph three. The premise seems convincing to me but if there is a change, I wonder whether there is a more subtle 'tagging and filing' exercise going on which lies behind wandering attention. For instance, I'm still able to focus on work papers but ...Al Craig added 17 months ago
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Closing techniquesNot strictly persuasive technology but a nice run-down of a number of closing techniques.Al Craig added 18 months ago
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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human CulturePersuasive tech must be easy to use.Al Craig added 18 months ago
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