One million in 21 days!
March 21st, 2007
Wow, what a month – one million people have discovered their VisualDNA™ since the beginning of March. So here’s a huuuuge thank you to all of you that have passed on links to friends – it’s made our year!
There’s no doubt that all of this has taken us by surprise so we’re feeling the pressure to get all of the things we’ve got planned and in the pipeline out to you as fast as we can.
Aled, Arne, Claire, Elle, Jack, Justine, Marie and Shim are working away on loads of cool new things - here’s some of what is coming up…
This week:
Plaxo integration
This lets you add your existing contact list to Imagini Friends. You can then invite your friends to profile themselves and you can share your results with each other.
Custom widgets
Our widget has been really popular but it has been a bit limited - so now we’re going to enable it so that you can customise it to what you like so you can adjust the layout to fit in with your blog or page. You’ll be able to enable it to be either static or dynamic.
Change password and user settings.
Yes, we know, our passwords have been rubbish - so we’re coding right now to enable you to choose your own and make the whole process a lot easier.
During the next 4 weeks:
Personal URLs
I personally can’t wait for this - you’ll have a simple URL for your profile - here’s an example:
Example: http://friends.imagini.net/alex
Private messaging
An obvious one we know, we just didn’t get time to get it implemented before we launched the beta site. It’s going to allow you to message each other without having to go through email.
Sending personalized e-mails
This will enable you to choose an option that notifies you if someone joins up who closely matches your profile.
Compare your data
This is going to be cool when it is up - it will allow you to search the database and compare yourself with other people around the world - comparing to your location/age-group/gender, and generally browse and share all the visual stories we have collected.
Longer term…
Lots of really great stuff coming - including new modules and ….
Some background to our vision
Did you know that businesses around the globe spend a staggering $18 billion per year on market research, trying to work out better ways of understanding what we all want? On top of this, about another $350 billion is spent every year advertising to persuade us to buy what’s been produced and available…
We think that this is totally outdated and simply not a sustainable way to carry on. It just makes sense that the future must be about producing less whilst meeting peoples needs more. We believe that the changing way in which we are all using the internet will make this possible by enabling people to get together and share information about what they like, want and need.
Our view is that the way to start assisting this process is to open up a completely new method of communication – a language that everyone who can see can interact with and understand – a language of images that enables people to understand each other in a different way.
The reason we have chosen images as a way of doing this is because about 90% of the way we all communicate is non-verbal. This 90% is made up of all sorts of different components that include many visual aspects such as who we look, act and behave.
Every moment of every day we make choices based on what things look like and we react differently to the same things. For instance – two very basic examples; a dog to one person might appear to be friendly and to another it could be the opposite, a pin-striped suit may represent comfort to one but could be perceived as totally stuffy by another.
These visual preferences ‘say’ a lot about us – a picture paints a thousand words after all. So, if you group together a few pictures that sum up yourself you soon get a short story about yourself – collect together a series of images about each aspect of your life and you have a whole novel. It’s these ‘picture stories’ that make up what we describe as our VisualDNA™.
At the moment, we’re enabling people to share their visual stories through a general lifestyle ‘module’, as we call it, but eventually, we’re going to be releasing ‘modules’ across many different and specific aspects of life such as health and well being, travel, fashion, entertainment and many more.
What we’re about then is collecting millions of visual stories together in one place and enabling those that have shared them to benefit from all the information that they contain.
We’re working on making Imagini a place where people can come to share, explore and discover through linking up with people like them across many different areas of life. As a result we aim to produce a new way for people to search – essentially one that allows you to find things based on your style and taste preferences.
As I said, one million people have shared their VisualDNA so far and about 50,000 are coming each day. Soon we’ll be releasing lots of different features that will hopefully make the process of communicating with each other far easier than it is right now and more fun too.
Here by the way is my VisualDNA…
March 28th, 2007 at 9:02 am
I LOVE IT!!
March 29th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I love this site, please keep up the good work. i cant wait to see the upgrades!
March 31st, 2007 at 8:23 pm
This is a great site - way overdue. Look forward to your updates.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:46 am
omg you guys/gals rock! I enjoy fun personality tests (and detest myers-briggs ‘purist’ approach) and your aethetically appealing test is so much fun.
It’s all just GIGO (garbage in-garbage out anyways) till some Einstein type comes in and fixes what Freud did to screw up psychology.
At least you made a brilliant attempt at what should be a fun thing: introspection
April 4th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I luv this idea…can I put this in my Yahoo 360 blog? I tryed to copy the script like it said…but didn’t show up..just in script form.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:37 am
I too love this..I tried to put it on my Yahoo 360 blog…but couldn’t!
So..tell me..how do I post it there ..on my Yahoo 360?
April 6th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
This is awesome. I love this.
Genius
April 8th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
well, all I can say is congratulations, you deserve this, this visual DNA is one of the greatest things I’ve seen in internet ’till now and I could say that I have a little bit of experience…
well done!
April 9th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Hi,
I have worked as a visual artist, web builder and photographer so this site was really appealling to me.
I have had fun here and have started to corresponded with an interesting person met through this site. The potential for growing the visual stories is enormous.
I am really looking forward to a few more ‘interest specific’ visualDNA story options: food, sex, homelife… imagination runs huh!! well done folks… KymE
April 12th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
This is such a great idea.. Wish i would have thought about it lol…I am sending my friends here sooooo have a great day and Thanks for such an interesting site
April 14th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
That’s so awesome :”> I love it so much. Like discovering my true self. XD
April 15th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Hi,
Just like Pauline, I also tried to add the widget to my Friendster account but the widget didn’t appear.
Hope it get’s fixed soon.
Thanks!
April 19th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Hi! This is a very cool site.
Can’t wait for your upgrades.
Question though: How can I change my visualDNA? I tried the Help section but it just redirects me to a link to start the whole process and create another profile.
Thanks lots!
April 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I love this! can you also put this on facebook?
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I love this. Works fine in Livejournal.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
This is very cool! But I’d like to change some of my initial choices. Is there a way to do that ?
April 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
I ♥ this site! I’ve got to get a blog to add this & 43places.com to!
April 28th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
hi…I was actually guided to this website by my sister, she had her visualDNA on her myspace page…I wanted to have one too! This is very cool…I have to say I am a little excited about the new things to come…I love the thought behind this, the way you intend to connect different visualDNA pages…I can’t wait! Awesome idea…I know I will be doing my best to get my friends to visit and make a page…it’s alot of fun as well.
thanks!
Peace
V
May 7th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
i am new to this but like the whole approch!
May 10th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Finally started my blog & this my visualDNA was my first post. Again, I♥this site, thanks & I look forward to more fun stuff!
Cheers!
June 20th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Wow……GREAT job…I mean this is sooo exciting….I just love this stuff..never got me so excited in the net world than before….feels like just going on the street and asking people to visit the site………looking foward to it…
WOW….thanks
June 25th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Great site! Looking forward to all the new stuff!
June 27th, 2007 at 5:31 am
I too am wondering how to change my visualDNA. As I change, so should my visual DNA be able to.
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:48 pm
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July 3rd, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Hello to Everyone!
July 6th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Hmmm, very neato so far, I just wish I could get into a party with my other compatible dna profiles : )
July 18th, 2007 at 9:06 am
TOO BAD one cannot re-take the Visual-DNA test once they registered. Think on that, do something about it!
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:42 am
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? — Steven Wright
February 12th, 2008 at 6:52 am
U guys are genuises!!!!!
i sooooo love this visual DNA thingy….what do i do, need to put it in my blogsite….it’s a mUST!!!!