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Archive of posts tagged psychology

Fishbots

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hearing from a number of “Fishbots”. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, well, there’s this service called Project Upstream which runs a network of AIM bots with names like ThemedSalmon and “SweptCoho”. The idea behind these bots seems to be that they collect AIM nicks [...]

Social psychology taken to a new level?

Why pay somebody to tell you about yourself, when you can just ask your friends to do it? That seems to be the premise of this site, which I saw on an old note of Richard Mehlinger’s (yes, Facebook is weird like that). So, yeah.