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Flickr Colors Get Visualized, ChatRoulette Posers Come Out To Play

by Matthew Zuras on March 15, 2010 at 07:30 PM


There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • Oooh, pretty colors! Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg at the IBM Visual Communication Lab in Cambridge developed an algorithm that analyzed and plotted a year's worth of color data from Flickr. The relative proportions of of color create thicker or thinner lines, depending on the month. At bottom is winter and its largely chalky palette, with the calendar progressing clockwise. [From: Hint.fm]
  • Need a stranger to tell you that you look like crap? Forget ChatRoulette -- Go Try It On is a forum of users dedicated to judging your outfits, in case you need an outside opinion. We haven't tried out the site ourselves, since the Switched staff tends toward an avant-garde/disheveled/cat-hair-covered fashion sense that the average layperson simply wouldn't understand. But for all the rest of you, let us know how it works! [From: FOX News]
  • The endless stream of ChatRoulette knockoffs has begun to issue forth from the depths of the Internet like the rivers of sycophantic imposture that always accompany an original idea. FaceRoulette combines the random-camminess of CR and the social stalkerability of Facebook. Yawn. That eliminates most of the fun of Chatroulette, without actually offering up with anything new. Congrats, developers! [From: FaceRoulette]
  • On the other hand, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Mental Floss has compiled a series of shot-for-shot remakes on YouTube, from 'Rocky IV' to the 'Perfect Strangers' intro. Perhaps the best, we are embarrassed to say, is the remake of 'A Goofy Movie.' Why would anyone want to do that? We don't know, but we have to give them an A for effort. [From: Mental Floss]
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