Revealing the Priorities

August 20, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Revealing the Priorities

How important someone is to your life can be based on many forms of criteria, e.g., feelings, frequency of visits, even financial impact. With the changes that technology continues to bring to our lives, if you consider how much time you spend reading and writing emails throughout a typical day, that may reveal more about your relationships, professional and personal.

Graduate students Cesar Hidalgo, Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s  Media Lab, recently wrote a set of algorithms that is the basis of Immersion, a desktop application that analyzes a user’s Google mail account and then presents a visual representation of the “important” people in your life. ABC News recently featured this product in their “App of the Week: Immersion.”

Forget Facebook and Twitter, your email may be your largest social networking tool. “People are constantly emailing and messaging each other,” said Smilkov. “We wanted to show people that email is a rich and underexplored data field.”

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.