Make friends by pointing at pictures

MySpace, Bebo and even Second Life (where people pretend to be cartoon characters) have all demonstrated the net’s current preoccupation with ‘social networking’.

However, these all take time to get into because of the endless screens of settings and preferences people have to wade through in order to can join in. Imagini does away with all that and instead, presents a series of questions about life, character, habits, inclinations and appetites that visitors answer by clicking on the picture that most closely matches their answer.

The result? Their ‘VisualDNA’ – an on-screen scrapbook that contains an electronic character assessment built up from those answers. Still in beta (which means there’s the occasional glitch and a few small holes that need plugging) Imagini also offers a shopping service.

In the Workshops section of Computeractive issue 242 we give a guided tour on Imagini. So, refer to the magazine and then click to transfer to the Imagini website.

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