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How well do you know the top tech press?
Using our client Smart.fm’s platform, we have created this quiz, which tests facial recognition of top technology press.
Whether you’re a bootstrapped startup or PR pro, knowing these faces can make a world of difference heading into the Fall conference season (TC50, DEMO, Under the Radar, Web 2.0 Expo and Summit, Supernova, etc.)
Three cool things to note – first, the application is called Brainspeed and it is a quizzing application designed to test how much information you know about a given subject. Smart.fm also has a learning mode application called iKnow. If you want to study the top technology press, you can launch iKnow by clicking here.
Second, lists (or, lessons) in Smart.fm are collaborative, so anyone can add content. Our list is by no means comprehensive, and we hope that you’ll help us make it better over time. You can access the list itself here.
Third, right now the system only supports a:b relationships, where each photo matches to a single name. With the next generation of Smart.fm that is launching later this Fall, it will be possible to create richer lists and quizzes, such that we will take the facial recognition foundation, and fold in questions about beats, hometowns, previous employers, etc., so that the system can test knowledge from many different angles at once.
For any of you among us who are especially ambitious, we also want to create a “top technology influencers” list that would include advisors, VC’s, speakers, authors, startup gurus, etc. It dawns on me as I write this that if this list of ours takes off in popularity, the top technology press might encounter an unusually high number of autograph seekers, as it were. If that happens, we’ll have to resort to creating a “Most Annoying PR People Who Must Be Avoided At All Costs” list. Ha!
Please let us know what you think.
P.S. Check out the Facebook application that we released earlier this week, which tests you on how well you know your friends.
Disclosure: Smart.fm is a client.
