how neurotic R U? xxx

You can tell a lot about someone by how and what they txt. What percentage of your txts say "sorry", "I can't", "oops" or "be late" ?

Do you get friends who only ever SMS you to ask for stuff? Or what about nice ones who text you out the blue to ask how you're feeling? Or who do you always cancel on, and who you send the most X's to?

I just had this idea for an application which scans all your text messages, and does two things:

1. By looking at how many times you use phrases and words like "I'm so", "thanks", "can you", "help", "disaster" and so on, it will give you a personality test, something like this one, (taken from a Facebook questionairre-based personality test):




It could also give you charts and graphs of how miserable or elated you've been over time, based on how many sad or happy faces you've used, or how many exclamation points you use.


2. It would also tell you loads about your relationships with your contacts - it would tell you who your emotional dumping ground is, who always says nice things to you and who texts you loads and whom you never reply to.

It could display all in this in a cool visual way, like a big graphy chart thing, or in a very cutesy neoprint way with halos, devil horns, to appeal to younger audiences.


some neoprints - those Japanese photo booths for kids that print cute stickers of you and your friends


For the technically minded amongst you, you could do in a few ways

* a Java app that you download to your mobile phone

* for mobile operators with web services that let users see their call and text data, it could sit on the web portal

* it could also work for email - be a plug in for Outlook express, or scrape of your gmail, or even be a Facebook widget, seeing who's wall you post on, and what you say, and displaying a readout on your profile


It would get really interesting if the data was all mashed together from different users - it could tell you what the difference in texting habits across nations was, or who the most apologetic person in the UK was!

I think this is a nice idea because it appeals to both typical gender stereotypes:

* geeky boys like anything that crunches numbers and shows them as stats and graphs of things, and visual maps

* girls love doing quizzes about personalities and especially about the relationships between their friends

(I know these are awful stereotypes, but if you look at a lot of MySpace pages and blogs you find lots of evidence that these are kinds of content that are more prevalent to each gender).

If anyone wants to build it give me a shout!

totally unintelliglble spam - no understand

I blogged before about stock alerts on spam. But now I have been hit by a new form, that I just don't understand at all. This spam has a multitude of products and brands, Morrison Bowmore, McLaren, Blavod, etc, but I'm pretty sure that the spam isn't for these. The text is just pieced together seemingly at random from bits of Internet. Is it just to probe for real email addresses?

Really no idea. Subliminal messaging? The attached picture url doesn't go anywhere, neither does the Chinese government sent address. Any takers?

How are they measuring the effectiveness of this spam?

from: goose bumps
to: anthony.goh@gmail.com
date: Dec 4, 2006 10:36 PM
subject: splendid

But not for Morrison Bowmore.
Well, scientists - obviously - may have the answer, according to an article I stumbled on the BBC. Surely, the industry deserves its very own showcase? Dude could make a killing over there. Last week, agriculture ministers from member states across the EU could not agree on what should and should not constitute vodka.
Blavod also distributes a raft of wines from Italy in the US, where consumer demand for Italian labels is growing.
I want you to give me your guesses for which European nation has the most breweries per capita. The key lies in what is commonly known as beer goggles.
However, this model relies somewhat on the wine consumer veering towards expert level. The moral of the story? '" Cold blooded, Matti! Their single, Patience, held its place at the top of the singles chart. He does bring up a good point about storing our priceless content an any of the formats du jour. And that, Keiller argues, is due to the power of UK supermarkets and their thirst for price discounts.
Local papers reported last week that another Belgian executive is to leave the company. Dude could make a killing over there. The premium vodka market is notoriously competitive, with a new brand aiming to meet demand for top-end vodkas seemingly launched every month.
The chart of European countries with the most breweries per inhabitant.
Last year, the UK drinks giant signed a sponsorship deal with Team McLaren Mercedes for its flagship Scotch whisky brand Johnnie Walker.
Shall I repeat all this? The crossover is not tenuous and, with Maxxium Australia helping out on the side, CCA is set for a whole new adventure.
De-emphasising that, while leading them through the wine maze will, one day, make someone very, very rich indeed. Blavod has also entered the fast-growing Tequila category in the US and its El Diamante del Cielo would bolster a Constellation portfolio that so far already includes Montezuma Tequila. Of course, our industry stirs pride and passion in even the hardest of hearts at times. McLaren Formula One cars, past and present, were parked throughout the building, which must have brought a smile to the face of Walsh, a confirmed Formula One fan.
At last - a foolproof plan. The strength of parent company Suntory in Asia should stand Morrison Bowmore in good stead, especially now that it is armed with a product in more modern, confident, premium-looking packaging. Their single, Patience, held its place at the top of the singles chart.
This place-dropping might work forwards, I reckon. The crux of the matter, however, is that the importance played by value runs right through the wine consumer. The chart of European countries with the most breweries per inhabitant. Indeed, at the meeting, the EU Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, offered to set up a blind tasting for Council members.
Blavod has also entered the fast-growing Tequila category in the US and its El Diamante del Cielo would bolster a Constellation portfolio that so far already includes Montezuma Tequila.