Stories by amichail

justin.tv as a way to augment your mind with the intelligence and knowledge of your viewers

Social news for smart people via ongoing IQ tests

Is anyone using bots to make their social site look busy? If so, how do the bots work? Are users told that they may encounter bots?

Beyond Pair Programming: Open Individualistic Competitive Programming (do you think this can work well?)

Understanding Navigability of Social Tagging Systems (alt.chi 2007 paper with reviews, pdf)

Table Tennis for Three (with video)

SecondLife: Revolutionary Virtual Market or Ponzi Scheme?

Intentional Programming demo (did intentional programming inspire Eclipse?)

Aspect-Oriented Programming: Radical Research in Modularity

Karl Sims' Evolved Virtual Creatures (old but still very cool!)

justin.tv as a way to interview people for jobs

reddit variation: top instead of hot, random instead of new, vote up to discuss, vote down when done

Scribd question: Is there something like Adobe Reader's #page= ?

Zero-Knowledge Sudoku: How do you convince someone that you have found a solution without giving the solution away?

The most amazing theoretical result in computer science (you will find it hard to believe!)

Has anyone tried providing a service to improve people's blog posts (e.g., in terms of grammar, style, tone, fact checking, etc.)?

How to get people to look at online ads carefully: turn it into a game!

Is the success of social sites such as wikipedia and myspace a sign that many people find their jobs and/or offline life dull?

How would you interview people for your startup? Would you focus more on low-level implementation questions or higher-level application ideas?

Why gmail should have a reddit-like social news service