We Feel Fine

Here is one of my favorite sites:-

http://www.wefeelfine.org/wefeelfine_pc.html

Its called "We Feel Fine" created by Jonathan Harris and Sap Kamvar. All it does is track the feelings of the people on the net! How do they do it?
The system looks for the phrase "I Feel" or "I am Feeling" in the heading or context of the blogs around the world. When it finds the phrase it grabs the entire sentence along with the location and time it was written. It also finds the "feeling" (eg. sad, happy, better, etc) in the sentence and puts it on wefeelfine.org.

Amazing eh? Well, it doesn't end there!

If you visit the website, you will know what I am talking about. Its the interface that is the best part of all. You can sort the feeling by location, age, gender and date! And if thats not enough, you also have 6 choices to view the feelings:-

1. Madness:- The name suggest what you would find on this page. The sentence that was retrieved is represented as a particle (dot) on the screen. The particles move randomly on the screen. The bigger the dot, the bigger the sentence. The dots also have different colors representing the feeling associated with them (eg. if the dot is BLUE then the sentence is related to bad, etc).


2. Murmurs:- This option puts the sentences one by one with the corresponding particle.

3. Montage:- Lets say that the sentence that was retrieved also has a picture, the montage option shows all the photo that was in the blog and shows it in a grid.

4. Mobs:- This puts the feeling in ascending order. So, if lots of people have used the feeling "better" in the phrase then it would be at the top followed by the next most used feeling.

5. Metrics:- Shows the most representative feeling of people in the last few hours.

6. Mounds:- This is the best one! It separates the feelings as jelly
mountains with the corresponding color. The mounds also jiggle like jelly!


So, lets end this post by using the phrase i feel -- i feel like this was one of best websites i have seen in a long time.