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Douglas Roberts-2

Chatroullete

Fascinating social network evolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html

http://chatroulette.com/

--Doug

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Steve Smith

Re: Chatroullete

OK... so I gave up 30 minutes of my life that (proverbially) I will never get back.

It consisted roughly of:

20% dark screens with no response

10% muted screens with no response

5% cams aimed at a wall with no response

30% young men clicking through as fast as they can?

10% groups of 2 or more, mostly girls, giggling

10% (young?) men exposing themselves

2 old geeks like me, one in a bad suit

I was only able to engage about 3 folks in a (brief) text exchange.
My best way of keeping a "partner"'s attention was to put my hand
in the camera and make lots of strange gestures that filled the screen...
3 or 4 responded with their own hand gestures, usually resorting to
the truly most obvious one as they clicked on down the line. 10 secs max.

So far I see no redeeming qualities. I hear it is addictive... I'll get back to you on that.

Anyone else have their own report on SurrealRoulette?

Steve

Fascinating social network evolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html

http://chatroulette.com/

--Doug

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Douglas Roberts-2

Re: Chatroullete

I had a much higher percentage of weenie waggers in my sample. About the same number of old geeks though. You looked good, BTW!

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

OK... so I gave up 30 minutes of my life that (proverbially) I will never get back.

It consisted roughly of:

20% dark screens with no response

10% muted screens with no response

5% cams aimed at a wall with no response

30% young men clicking through as fast as they can?

10% groups of 2 or more, mostly girls, giggling

10% (young?) men exposing themselves

2 old geeks like me, one in a bad suit

I was only able to engage about 3 folks in a (brief) text exchange.
My best way of keeping a "partner"'s attention was to put my hand
in the camera and make lots of strange gestures that filled the screen...
3 or 4 responded with their own hand gestures, usually resorting to
the truly most obvious one as they clicked on down the line. 10 secs max.

So far I see no redeeming qualities. I hear it is addictive... I'll get back to you on that.

Anyone else have their own report on SurrealRoulette?

Steve
Fascinating social network evolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html

http://chatroulette.com/

--Doug

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Doug Roberts
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Eric Charles

Re: Chatroullete

In reply to this post by Steve Smith

I haven't tried it, but a number of students in my classes have been talking about it recently. A few were people proclaiming its coolness, a few were significant-others complaining of its addictiveness (and stupidness). Based on their experiences, I recommend drinking five to six beers, then trying again.

It also seems to be more fun to do as a group of people - presumably multiple people in the me place on different computers, so you can harass each other, commiserate, enjoy each other's confusions, laugh when someone else gets exposed at, etc.

Eric

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 09:39 PM, Douglas Roberts <[hidden email]> wrote:

I had a much higher percentage of weenie waggers in my sample. About the same number of old geeks though. You looked good, BTW!

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth@...> wrote:

OK... so I gave up 30 minutes of my life that (proverbially) I will never get back.

It consisted roughly of:

20% dark screens with no response

10% muted screens with no response

5% cams aimed at a wall with no response

30% young men clicking through as fast as they can?

10% groups of 2 or more, mostly girls, giggling

10% (young?) men exposing themselves

2 old geeks like me, one in a bad suit

I was only able to engage about 3 folks in a (brief) text exchange.
My best way of keeping a "partner"'s attention was to put my hand
in the camera and make lots of strange gestures that filled the screen...
3 or 4 responded with their own hand gestures, usually resorting to
the truly most obvious one as they clicked on down the line. 10 secs max.

So far I see no redeeming qualities. I hear it is addictive... I'll get back to you on that.

Anyone else have their own report on SurrealRoulette?

Steve

Fascinating social network evolution:

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html" target="" onclick="window.open('http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html');return false;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html

<a href="http://chatroulette.com/" target="" onclick="window.open('http://chatroulette.com/');return false;">http://chatroulette.com/

--Doug

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Nick Thompson

Re: Chatroullete

In reply to this post by Douglas Roberts-2

Steve,

...and a partridge in a pear tree???

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,

Clark University ([hidden email])

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]

----- Original Message -----

From: [hidden email]

To: [hidden email]

Sent: 2/21/2010 7:37:57 PM

Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Chatroullete

OK... so I gave up 30 minutes of my life that (proverbially) I will never get back.

It consisted roughly of:

20% dark screens with no response
10% muted screens with no response
5% cams aimed at a wall with no response
30% young men clicking through as fast as they can?
10% groups of 2 or more, mostly girls, giggling
10% (young?) men exposing themselves
2 old geeks like me, one in a bad suit

I was only able to engage about 3 folks in a (brief) text exchange.
My best way of keeping a "partner"'s attention was to put my hand
in the camera and make lots of strange gestures that filled the screen...
3 or 4 responded with their own hand gestures, usually resorting to
the truly most obvious one as they clicked on down the line. 10 secs max.

So far I see no redeeming qualities. I hear it is addictive... I'll get back to you on that.

Anyone else have their own report on SurrealRoulette?

Steve

Fascinating social network evolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html

http://chatroulette.com/

--Doug

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Doug Roberts
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Jochen Fromm-4

Re: Chatroullete

In reply to this post by Douglas Roberts-2

Just seen this video: FRIAM is always ahead of the crowd..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHrvpgA9XtI

-J.

----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Roberts
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:07 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] Chatroullete

Fascinating social network evolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html

http://chatroulette.com/

--Doug

--
Doug Roberts
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505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

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Jochen Fromm-4

Re: Chatroullete

Sorry, I mean "ahead of the times" or "ahead of the curve".
Where does this saying "ahead of the curve" come from?
Baseball or NASCAR races? In German we have only
"seiner Zeit voraus sein" which means "being ahead of
the times".

-J.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jochen Fromm" <[hidden email]>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Chatroullete

> Just seen this video: FRIAM is always ahead of the crowd..
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHrvpgA9XtI
> -J.
>

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Patrick Reilly

Re: Chatroullete

I think that being "ahead of the curve" was originally referring to
the desired state within the lift power curve describing the process
of an airplane in taking flight.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 28, 2010, at 11:43, "Jochen Fromm" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Sorry, I mean "ahead of the times" or "ahead of the curve".
> Where does this saying "ahead of the curve" come from?
> Baseball or NASCAR races? In German we have only
> "seiner Zeit voraus sein" which means "being ahead of
> the times".
>
> -J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jochen Fromm" <[hidden email]>
> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[hidden email]
> >
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Chatroullete
>
>
>> Just seen this video: FRIAM is always ahead of the crowd..
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHrvpgA9XtI
>> -J.
>>
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Roger Critchlow-2

Re: Chatroullete

According to UsingEnglish.com

Similar to ahead of the pack, ahead of the curve literally refers to your position on the statistical bell curve, where the top of the curve represents the median, average result. By being ahead of the curve you represent the top percentile of results that either has the advanced skills or understanding that sets you apart.

and most of the other google hits refer to business forecasting usages. Visualizing the position on the bell curve, we could argue for a surfing origin, too.

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On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Patrick Reilly <[hidden email]> wrote:

I think that being "ahead of the curve" was originally referring to the desired state within the lift power curve describing the process of an airplane in taking flight.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 28, 2010, at 11:43, "Jochen Fromm" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Sorry, I mean "ahead of the times" or "ahead of the curve".
Where does this saying "ahead of the curve" come from?
Baseball or NASCAR races? In German we have only
"seiner Zeit voraus sein" which means "being ahead of
the times".

-J.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jochen Fromm" <[hidden email]>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Chatroullete

Just seen this video: FRIAM is always ahead of the crowd..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHrvpgA9XtI
-J.

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