Social Media Morons - part 2
 

The Twoddler.

The prototype device, developed by a team at Hasselt University in Belgium, essentially hooks up a Fisher Price toy to a twitter account.
When the baby performs different actions, the account is updated.

Here’s how the team describes it:

“The software captures sensor data from the activity center and tries to select a predefined text that is related to that sensor data. We are extending the system so it becomes easier to relate certain patterns of sensor readings with a set of strings.
For example: when Yorin plays with mommy’s picture for over 3 minutes, a twitter message will be posted saying “@mommy_yorin Yorin misses mommy and looks forward playing with her this evening”, or when Yorin is hitting the doorbell button four times in a row, a twitter message will be posted saying “Yorin is showing off his music skills with a new tune”. We hope to even support dynamic composition of new strings in the future.”


And just in case you missed part 1 in todays commentary
http://oprano.com/blog/?p=94

Re: Social Media Morons - part 2
 

Twitter...Good lord, but its no wonder its so popular the depth of most of the users intellect is just about 140 characters

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Hey! I resemble that remark, it took me a long time to form a 140 word sentence, but I can name any song in four notes...Plus, how else will I find out what people have had for breakfast..

Not certain why there's so much angst towards twitter, webmasters don't like it because they want it to be something that it's not..

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I love twitter and I know what its for and its not to spam your latest gallery or cam show.

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Yea....I'm still trying to figure out it's purpose....

Other than a complete loss of any privacy.
Which, does not go well, with marketing adult products.

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Is it sad that I kinda want one of these for my cat now? Probably - good thing I didn't tweet about it! :lol:

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It's nothing tricky to express your thoughts in 140 characters when you have experience with PPC advertising. After writing at least 100 text Ads people are getting closer to the power of word.