http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:24:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/wristwatch-track-heartbeat.html Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:47 +0000 Basis is a connected personal tracking device that not only tracks your data but helps you make sense of it as well.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/content-curators-compete-in-game-like-forum-while-making-newsroom-contributions-future-of-gaming.html Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:49:22 +0000 Digg Newsrooms is a new channel introduced by the online content curator that uses both rewards and status as incentive for experts to help curate its topical channels.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/could-an-algorithm-give-spammers-more-power-on-google.html Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:50:11 +0000 Could a flaw in Google+'s circle system make it a playground for spammers?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/whos-that-filter-headlines.html Wed, 18 May 2011 02:28:36 +0000 "Why has Netflix (and many others) decided that conservative is the only direction for an algorithm?"]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/worlds-first-twitter-led-hedge-fund-opens.html Tue, 17 May 2011 19:33:26 +0000 London-based investment boutique Derwent Capital Markets are claiming to have created Europe's first social media-based hedge fund. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/twitter-aggregator-collaborate-produce-worlds-longest-poem.html Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:45:54 +0000 A clever Romanian website channels twitter babble into the world's longest poem]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/future-cars-could-double-up-as-road-sensors.html Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:36:20 +0000 A new technology would allow vehicles to relay traffic conditions on road in real time.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/training-computers-to-detect-sarcasm.html Tue, 18 May 2010 19:49:03 +0000 An Israeli research team is working on improving how computers understand subtle forms of communication.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/personas-visualizing-your-online-identity.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:36:38 +0000 A component of the MIT Media Lab‘s “Metropath(olgies)” installation, which looks at the non-stop flow of communication and information in the modern world,  Personas delivers a data portrait of your online identity by combining natural language processing and Internet search tools. Enter your first and last name into the search box, and watch as Personas matches your name to a pre-existing set of categories created through an algorithmic method that references a vast body of data. The philosophy behind the installation, according to the Personas site: Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizationsRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/pic-rapid-prototyping-and-jewelry.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:46:02 +0000 This weekend at the Renegade Craft Fair in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we spotted an interesting line of jewelry generated from rapid prototyping technology. Named Nervous System, the pieces were created by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenburg — both former students at MIT (appropriately enough) who studied in the fields of Architecture, Biology and Mathematics. The jewelry — completely constructed using 3d printing technology, and titled with names such as lamina, dendrite and radiolaria — take inspiration from organic structures. Many of their pieces are generated from algorithmic processes and even allow you to customize your own pieces of jewelry through theirRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/google-algorithm-attempts-to-diagnose-employee-psychology.html Thu, 21 May 2009 16:29:31 +0000 We were already aware that most big companies monitored their employees – checking up on their web-surfing habits and reading the occasional email – but with a newly developed algorithm, Google is attempting to take the idea of personal productivity to the level of personal psychology. In an effort to identify unhappy staff, Google’s program sorts through personnel files – appraisals, salary and promotion history – to determine who might be ready to leave. The algorithm operates under the assumption that employees who feel underutilized are the most likely candidates for seeking new jobs, giving management an opportunity to interveneRead more...]]>