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Who Are You? Who? Who? August 21, 2009

Posted by Matthew Woolums in Data, Tools.
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With apologies to The Who, MIT produced a new way to search for yourself online. Called Personas, you type in your first and last name (I’m guessing the more common your name, the less personally relevant) and after data-mining information about your name, produces a graph of how your name is perceived on the Internet. I’m not sure what the ‘Illegal” section is all about, but here’s my personagraph. From an article by Techcrunch.

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Seems to work with screen names too.

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I wonder what it says about me that my screen name and real name show different results.

The Personas Project From MIT Is All Kinds Of Cool

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