{"id":657,"date":"2009-08-22T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T23:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2016-06-07T08:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T13:35:46","slug":"mit-personas-search-people-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/people-search-news\/mit-personas-search-people-name\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT&#8217;s Personas Search Measures A Person&#8217;s Online Persona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personas is a people search engine created by Aaron Zinman from MIT&#8217;s Media Lab. You search for your name or someone else&#8217;s name on Personas and the search engine searches the web for the context associated with it and returns a graphical profile of your online persona.<\/p>\n<p>Taking someone&#8217;s name as input Personas then culls the web for information to characterize the person. Personas does this by associating the name with a set of categories created from a massive index of personal information. The search process is shown visually with each level of the processing search with the final search result showing a personal profile associated with the given name.<\/p>\n<p>Personas shows the way the web sees someone&#8217;s name online. For people who have common names, the results will vary.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch a demo of the Personas search engine on the YouTube video below or visit the site for yourself @ <a href=\"http:\/\/personas.media.mit.edu\/personasWeb.html\">Personas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PWVwbpFVtvU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PWVwbpFVtvU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/08\/21\/the-personas-project-from-mit-is-all-kinds-of-cool\/\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personas is a people search engine created by Aaron Zinman from MIT&#8217;s Media Lab. You search for your name or someone else&#8217;s name on Personas and the search engine searches the web for the context associated with it and returns a graphical profile of your online persona. Taking someone&#8217;s name as input Personas then culls [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/people-search-news\/mit-personas-search-people-name\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from MIT&#8217;s Personas Search Measures A Person&#8217;s Online Persona<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-search-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}