Personas: an online art installation with a personal twist
If you have a unique name, Personas can be disturbingly accurate. If not, it's still visually interesting, but other people who share your name can muddy your results. The flaws in this kind of data analysis are part of the project, though: Personas is about showing how smart the web has become, and how far it has to go before software can intelligently trace our digital histories.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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caleb.largo said 11:04PM on 8-23-2009
haha it said no digital traces found for me! of course i never use my real name online though.
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Kenn.keeper said 11:06PM on 8-23-2009
Would have been nice to see this work, but it kept asking me to increase my screen size. Can't get much bigger than 1920X1080 on a 22' LCD monitor,even tried their 800X600 recommendation......
Free is Good
Kenn.....
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Richard said 11:48PM on 8-23-2009
DLS never ceases to amaze me with their grammatical errors and that website is just dumb.
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mko said 11:34AM on 8-24-2009
It does not accept non English latin characters.
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Jayson said 7:44PM on 8-27-2009
This is bullsh*t. If you Google my name there are more than 45,000 entries yet this is giving me the "no digital trace" feedback.
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