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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Data over Instant Messaging
a piece from Bill Burnham's blog (Burnham's Beat)
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Elizabot passes sex-chat Turing test
From BoingBoing...
"A bored hacker modified an Eliza programme to act as an IRC sex-chat bot that impersonated an eighteen year old girl (or, rather, impersonated a sex-chat afficianodo of indeterminate gender impersonating an eighteen year old girl). He assumed that people would try to have cyber-sex with his bot and get bored, but in fact a surprising number were convinced and even got off with it."
.. more in the link above
"A bored hacker modified an Eliza programme to act as an IRC sex-chat bot that impersonated an eighteen year old girl (or, rather, impersonated a sex-chat afficianodo of indeterminate gender impersonating an eighteen year old girl). He assumed that people would try to have cyber-sex with his bot and get bored, but in fact a surprising number were convinced and even got off with it."
.. more in the link above
Monday, July 26, 2004
"picture interviewing"
here's a novel thought, combining instant messaging and mobile phone/ camera phone technology...
Having downloaded the latest version of Agile Messenger (a free multi-channel IM client for Symbian and Microsoft Smartphones and Pocket PC - http://www.agilemobile.com/am.html) for my phone, I realised that I can now do something with our survey software that isn't possible via any other channel: I can run a mrInterview survey through my IM player (see http://im.msurveys.com), and respond to an open ended question by taking a picture and reply with this picture (in combination with any text, if required - what is stored in the response data is a link to the image, and any text entered with the image).
Not sure off the top of my head what type of market research/ survey/ feedback this may be useful for - I guess anywhere where "a picture is worth a thousand words".
Having downloaded the latest version of Agile Messenger (a free multi-channel IM client for Symbian and Microsoft Smartphones and Pocket PC - http://www.agilemobile.com/am.html) for my phone, I realised that I can now do something with our survey software that isn't possible via any other channel: I can run a mrInterview survey through my IM player (see http://im.msurveys.com), and respond to an open ended question by taking a picture and reply with this picture (in combination with any text, if required - what is stored in the response data is a link to the image, and any text entered with the image).
Not sure off the top of my head what type of market research/ survey/ feedback this may be useful for - I guess anywhere where "a picture is worth a thousand words".
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Microsoft/AOL/Yahoo link business IM
Unfortunately only for businesses - I'm thinking that surveying through the IM channel would be particularly interesting for surveys with a young, fun (well...), non-corporate audience... but maybe this development will also enable uses in more corporate environment/contexts?