‘Sup Hasher?
Dudes et dudettes,
HashThySelf is pleased to announce the availability of the third Z-meter application - Timberlake-o-meter. This lets you proudly display the unfortunately percentage of users who don’t look as much like Justin Timberlake as you do!
Timberlake-o-meter is available online at http://hashthyself.com/zm, and as a Facebook application as well.
Check out:
Enjoy!
- A. Hasher.
Dudes et dudettes
Please welcome two new facebook applications into the fold. These are Zetameter and Pittometer, part of a growing family of applications that we have called z-meter apps.
z-meter apps offer a unique Facebook experience by mashing up the HashThySelf Image Search Results JSON object via its Mashup API into Facebook apps that tell you where you stand at that very instant, in relation to all other users, when compared to the z-meter target.
The zetameter application, for example, allows you to display on your profile the percentage of users who look less like Catherine Zeta-Jones than you do! The Pittometer application allows you to display the percentage of users who look less like Brad Pitt. Needless to say, the percentage will keep changing as more and more people use these apps.
We hope you enjoy them. Please keep an eye out for more z-meter apps down the line. We plan to launch a new z-meter app about once each week, especially for those targets that you want us to. Soon we also hope to give you a web-based interface to z-meters, just like for HashThySelf, so you can install z-meters on your own home pages too.
Zetameter and Pittometer were created by David Romano and Anand Venkataraman.
Enjoy!
A. Hasher
Dudes et dudettes,
HashThySelf is pleased and proud to present David Romano’s HashMash for Facebookers. The coolest 
Facebook application to date, it allows you to instantly Hash your Facebook profile photos and post your zetas online in your Facebook profile. Please check it out, and as always, please let us know what you think.
Once you are logged into your Facebook account, you can get HashMash from
Here’s a screenshot from a facebook profile of a HashMasher!
Nice, no?
Enjoy!
A. Hasher
Dudes et dudettes,
David Romano informed us that his Facebook HashThySelf Mashup, which he has called “HashMash”, has been tested and is ready to go. It will soon enter the Facebook apps pipeline and you would be able to install it on your profiles. As his sponsor, we had first look at this application, and we installed it on our own Facebook profiles. Need I even say it looks Shmashing!
Even better, David has decided to give his app away for free, since he had a great deal of fun developing it.
So, look forward to HashMash soon, the coolest ever hi-tech Facebook app!
- Hashers
Dudes et dudettes,
Last night, we finally managed to get Wordpress installed and configured just right on HashThySelf.com. Yes, selecting the right theme is always the most time-consuming as usual, and we’re still not fully satisfied. We welcome your suggestions, of course.
We’ve been wanting to move the blog over to our local host for a while, now, but it had to wait for its turn in the project pipeline. Once we figure out a way to script or otherwise automate the transfer of past articles from blogger.com, we will start hosting our blog locally. (Thanks blogger, for having us in the meantime).
We have also made major progress with the promised FaceBook application, which is undergoing rigorous QC as we speak. I’m pleased to say that David Romano himself, the author of the Perl Facebook API on CPAN, is leading this effort.
And finally, of course, the migration of the back-end to be fully LAMP based is on schedule. We managed to scope out the issues in the last few days, and hope that this will happen before too long. We’d really like the databases to be migrated from MLDBM into MySql before we launch the FaceBook app. We have confirmed that the migration is most likely trivial, but as always, we need to make triple-triple sure that we haven’t overlooked any hidden issues.
So, I ask you to please contain your excitement and keep watching our site.
Cheers.
A. Hasher