Tag: lauren mccarthy
Have you ever wanted to be a corporate-level patron of art, commissioning artists to make something that’s all about you, but you don’t have the money? Well, this new Kickstarter from Electric Objects will allow you to become a mini-Medici. At the completion of the drive, each backer will receive a short survey about who […]
The anti-Tinder has arrived and it has the hilariously dystopian, Silicon Valley-friendly name: pplkpr. More than just a dating app, pplkpr (pronounced “people keeper”), is a service that aims to monitor your real life interactions with people and eventually it blocks them on social media or schedules a date with them based on the information […]
In light of the ongoing controversy around Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Study, artist and programmer Lauren McCarthy created a Google Chrome extension that allows you to manipulate your own timeline using the same algorithm used in the study, Beta Beat reports. Facebook Mood Manipulator allows you to adjust the levels of “positive, emotional, aggressive and open” […]
