Idea Day24: MyEmotion
Many new startups can help you make choice of websites. StumbleUpon picks up websites for you, based on your past selection, your interest as others, or sites popularly ranked by other viewers. Most recommendation mechanisms of web 2.0 sites are derived from users’ “past rational behavior”, such as what SNS I have engaged, what key words I have put in search engine, what tags I used, or what sites I visited/bookmarked. Results generated from this database cater to your daily need of works or entertainment. However, from time to time, I find those approaches not enough. For example, I just got depressed because my boss turned down my proposal which took me a whole month to prepare, so under this circumstance, I’m sad, I’ m frustrated, I would like to stumble upon something that fits my current emotion.
- 1.) I input my mood, depressed, in this case
- 2.) There returns a selection of websites/videos /musics that can recharge my energy, rebuild my confidence, and most importantly, make me happy.
- 3.) After I visit some of them (after a number of sites, or a period of time), a question appears: Do you feel better?
- 4.) If I answer “Yes”, the system remembers those pages in DB as references for others having similar emotions.
- 5.) If I answer “No”, the system returns another set of pages, and repeat 3.) until I really get better, and answer “Yes”.
In other words, this system chooses different kinds of websites that moderate my emotion whenever I am angry/happy/sad/bored/sleepy/energetic/hysteria/nervous/excited/blue/
depressed/longly/sorry/pessimistic/horrified…etc
It could also help me spread my mood to friends or family. I can click “share my emotion“, then this system broadcasts my mood to all of my friends on a list and they can do something as feedback. (call me, chat with me, show me something, etc.)
If you are happy, they will be influenced by you; If you are sad, they can comfort you. Of course, friends in this network can decide whose mood to be received and who to be the receivers. If you experience the same mood as Your friends’ next time, the returning pages will come with a line: Your friend, (___), found this site make him/her (___) when he/she was (___).
Sphere It
I like it, the “StumbleUpon” genre is definitely catching fire. This post made me think that it would be cool to have an “EmoStumbler” soundtrack, maybe pulling a feed from Pandora that has some good mood music?
Dig the blog, btw, isn’t this a great creative brainstorming excercise?