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Please welcome Zetameter and Pittometer

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

NEW - Search within popular celebs

Dudes et Dudettes

At long last, something that was suggested and requested by several users has moved from the product pipeline into implementation. We now have a feature that allows you to restrict your searches to only happen within a (user selected) subset of images. Right now, this subset happens to just be the set of all faces that are “deemed” to be popular (algorithmically, of course). Later, we hope to tag more subsets allowing you to choose various intersections (e.g. popular male sportsperson). Until, then we hope you enjoy this new feature, and of course, comments are always welcome and appreciated. We’re not entirely happy with the current interface, of course, but it’s been launched after preliminary testing because you wanted it so bad :-)

Thanks.

- HASHers