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Who else will ADD TRUTH TO YOUR NETWORK?

The HyperHummus ambition in a long term perspective is to "Add taste to your network". And for our first project we choosed to focus on:

ADD TRUTH TO YOUR NETWORK

With the following 5 products:

Blog Alarm - Bloggers life jacket!
A device that keeps you updated with all bloggers you want to connect to, who alerts you when they have been inactive for a few days. It brings attention to bloggers who writes about bold stuff, and the risk they are at. You follow the "silence", not the activity. It keeps the chain strong between bloggers, because it tells you when a link is missing.

Truth Plate - Believe it or not
This is a ranking system that allows you to categorise mediaposts (blogs, podcasting, news, broadcasting etc) in terms of credibility. Is it true or false, what do you think? Rank it from 1 - 5, and tell people WHY you think so. A creative and visual way of showing statistic results.

Bullshit Detector - Find the baddy!!!
A internet-spyware that locates antidemocratic expressions (in text, video, images and sound - a very advanced technology :) ) and tells you where the monsters are. You can also add your own keywords of what to look out for, and add examples of baddies...

See my footprints - Follow me
A service that is volontary (of course) that allows you to open up your internet-history to everyone. Let people see where you are surfing, and you will get a chance to see where they have been. A two way exchange, to increase trust and transparancy in social media.

Who Else... - ...thinks, acts and feels like me?
This product gives you a chance to "google" for peoples opinions, in order to find people who share your point of view, or experiences or impressions. If you want to ask the world if they think like you (or opposite way) this is the easiest search-engine to use. If you dare to.

social media solution suggestions from Hiba.

POST IT - before it's too late...

We just finished broadcasting our research presentation on www.bambuser.com (just search for HyperHummus and you will find us) and for those of you who will follow an intelligent, creative, revealing and abstract discussion; PLEASE log in and do so!!! :)

The rest of you will get the most important stepping stones, for our further idea development here:

* RULES + "INTERNET POLICE"

* RANKING SYSTEM FOR BELIEVING IN MEDIA & NEWS

* ALARM-ALERT TO CONNECT BLOGGERS

* TRUTH DETECTOR

* KIDS COMMUNITY + ENTERTAINMENT

* TV & FILM FESTIVALS ON INTERNET

* ANTI-HATE SPYWARE

* TASTE TO YOUR NETWORK

Hyper Exposure .. our in-depth interviews !

interesting opinion on Comparison as a tool of checking media credibility , nwespapers and news portals as a primary source of information.

And here we can see the interviewee finds it hard to trust in any media outlet but the newspapers , google as a way to checking media credibilty.

he depends on news portals as a main source of information ,

of course you recognize this cute face ! she prefers TV as a premiere news source .

our lovely facilitator , she preferes internet , and to have more than one source .

Who created Rage Boy???

Do you trust the footage TV-stations and newspapers publish?
Do you think the people in the footage are "real" ?
Do you think that what you see is what is happening?

Then do the following:

1. Visit www.google.com
2. Fill in the two words "Rage Boy"
3. Look at images result

This man appeared in many different medias after the protests against the Muhammed drawings.
He sure looks angry. But is he really a true representative of protesters? Or is he just an actor, used by media to portrait a version of muslims that media think suits their audience?

What do you think???

Ok, we are getting closer...

Saed, Ul, Malik, Maha and Hazem are looking at YOU!!!

We are really getting closer now, we did some initial research yesterday, and managed to reach a common vision about our project.

We found it interesting that Saher Sidhom's lecture yesterday actually touched a very important side of our research plan, which is credibility , and trustworthiness . When Ul asked him how we can find out if something true or not , he simpley answered : " Google it " ! and it was ironic that exactly the day before Mark said don't trust Google ! And he showed us exactly why we shouldn't. So the question is still on .

Yesterday lecture actually tackled a very important point which is indirect marketing. How to send messages to people without letting them know they are actually targeted in a perfectly designed campaign.

The thing is the lecture inspired us for more questioning , in addition to the questions we already have.

So today we split into two groups , the first one includes Maha , Ul, and Hazem and it is supoosed to find answers to these questions :

• Indirect Marketing ? Where is the sender ? Is it easy to find the real sender? The lecture yesterday mentioned something also about the Brand-Company dilemma.

• Being neutral in today's world , is there such thing? Do people need to be neutral?

• What are people's techniques to find out if something true or not? Do they need such techniques or care for finding such technique?

• Are there any examples for misusing video/audio/language /discourse for a hidden purpose and it can affect people subconsciously?

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This group is using two research tools , online research , and in depth interviews with people .

The other group includes Saed and Malik , they are supposed to relate the trustworthiness thing to children and adolescents . We had this common opinion that we should take care of how children perceive media and how they deal with it and what is the possibilities that they can be harmed or effected negatively by the huge source of information and the easily access to different sites that contains a lot children abuse and pornography.

and so we are working on it ! wait for the findings soOoOoon ! =)

Wael Abbas is an Egyptian blogger and he talking about soocial media solutions in Egypt and the world mainly for kids and young people.