Picnicmob brings like-minded people together at public parks

Posted by darragjm on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @04:08PM
from the picnicmob.org dept.

http://www.picnicmob.org/

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Re:Picnicmob brings like-minded people together at public parks by jey on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @07:29PM (#66066)

I really like the idea, although the number of questions is possibly too long. I think the sweet spot is probably around 20 questions. shrug

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Re:Picnicmob brings like-minded people together at public parks by queensnake on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @07:34PM (#66069)

I think you could use a self-organizing map (SOM), too.

Frikkin' awesome idea, anyway. We're at the /beginning/ of what we can do when information and its processing is ubiquitous.

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Re:Picnicmob brings like-minded people together at public parks by Alex3917 on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @10:17PM (#66120)

I rolled my eyes when I saw there were 30 questions, but I actually found them interesting and engaging (helped by the cool graphic design.) That being said, I'd prefer if there were an option to just answer 20 questions and then import my Facebook profile to answer the rest.

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Re:Picnicmob brings like-minded people together at public parks by thomasptacek on Thursday October 11, 2007 @11:13AM (#66279)

Too many questions, and why on earth do your users care that you use SIMULATED ANNEALING? I've actually used SIMULATED ANNEALING (for graph layout) and I don't even care.

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Re:Picnicmob brings like-minded people together at public parks by thomasptacek on Thursday October 11, 2007 @01:50PM (#66359)

Again amusing that people disagree, and think that a questionairre which allows for "WhatSpace? WhoBook?" should advertise algorithm selection on a splash page.

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