Sentiment Quiz: Playing On Facebook

A good way to find people for playing your game is to put it on the social network: And what can be better and more effective than Facebook?!
Sentiment Quiz exploits human intelligence for providing words' collocations. A player should choose if the word written is positive, very positive, negative, very negative or neutral. If his choice matches with the answers of other players, he will get points and a small icon depicting him tries to get ahead of his concurents. The game is available in 7 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. One can win DVD from movie collection if he gets the most points.

Design of the game leaves somehow much to be desired. In comparison with the GWAP, it is not so colourful and competetive. There is also no time restriction: you can play as long as you wish.
The results will be used for some scientific research. I think, something in SentiWordNet style or opinion mining. Maybe also lexical functions or machine translations.
Somehow, the Sentiment Quiz team have recently gathered 98% evaluated terms. Within this period 5540 players helped evaluating terms from different languages!!! Sounds amazing!!!

The Web knows what you feel

"We feel fine!" explors human emotions on the Web. If you have written in your LiveJournal, MSN Spaces, MySpace, Blogger, Flickr, Technorati, Feedster, Ice Rocket, etc. what you feel or what you are feeling in this moment, your feeling could also be crawled by "We feel fine!"
15000-20000 new feelings a day and over 12 million feelings since 2005.


"We feel fine" contains about 5000 pre-defined feelings. When the crawler finds a phrase "I feel/ I am feeling", it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written as well as images. All of this information is saved and then the statistics about feelings is provided.

Now you can even buy the book "We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion"

This is an approach that was inspired by techniques used in Listening Post, a wonderful project by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen.

Another collection of tools investigating the mood on the Web is provided by MoodViews

Who is donating to Wikipedia?

Donations to Wikipedia have exceeded 6 Mio in Januar this year after the pleaing of the Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia was launched in 2001, so it is quite a good sum for the non-profit project, I suppose.

The motto on the Wikimedia page sounds somehow a bit pathetic:
"It stopped being just a website a long time ago. For many of us, most of us, Wikipedia has become an indispensable part of our daily lives."
Help protect it now. Please make a donation today.



It reminds strongly GreenPeace ads.

I am wondering who is actually donating money. I mean, private persons. Why donating to Wikipedia? Why not better help children in Africa? Are they impressed by the slogan? By the project?
I was trying to understand the idea. Here you can have a look at the list.

Donators leave their name quite often with the city names, so i have found some of them afterwards by Google. I am wondering about the persons who spend more than 50$ to Wikipedia. For example, there are some private persons who are spending about 100$, like Matthias Graf from Magdeburg or Christian Bahls from Rostock. Some people want to make SEO, they leave the links to their websites. but most of them are just saying "thanks" to Wikipedia.
People want to thank Wikipedia for such brilliant project, for much awesome information!
but I mean the information written on Wikipedia is written by other users for free, so you can say "thank you" by writing another article or translating. or you can donate the money for the person who has written the article that helped you. Then it would be more fair. Maybe this Matthiases and Christians don't understand that fact?

And how do you think?

GWAP: "games with a purpose"

I find the idea of Luis von Ahn great and really unbeatable!!!!
On the Web you have so many people who like to do all the sharing kind of staff, writing journals, Wikipedia's articles, blogs :-)

Why don't give them a job?! Why don't create the applications that make the boring tasks and tests quite interesting, challenging and entertaining?!

I want to enlighten in my blog the Web applications that I found interesting and "games with a purpose" that I found challenging and useful!