April 3rd, 2007
Chat With My Cyber Twin
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MyCyberTwin is a very good idea with very bad execution.
The website allows you to create virtual personalities that can chat for you online. Basically, your MyCyberTwin learns how to chat on your behalf in two ways -
- You choose a personality type and answer a personality questionnaire so that MyCyberTwin learns to imitate your personality. For each personality type, it has pre-defined answers to common questions people might ask it.
- You can also teach MyCyberTwin to be more like you by feeding in three alternative responses to a whole range of common questions people might ask it. You can also feed in FAQs specific to your blog and three alternative answers to these.
After you have given MyCyberTwin a personality and taught it to talk like you, you can embed it on your blog’s ‘About’ page and let your readers use it either as a fun chat tool or as a comprehensive FAQ.
I spent some time today evening training the Gauravonomics MyCyberTwin.
I loved how MyCyberTwin offers almost unlimited scope for customization on the back-end. Theoretically, you can train it so well that even your girlfriend won’t know if she’s catting with you or your MyCyberTwin. In fact, as I was teaching it, I couldn’t but think of the ultra-cool Ms Dewey herself.
However, MyCyberTwin disappoints with its front-end. Its front-end offers no customization at all and the default display is so ugly that you won’t want to put it up on your blog at all. I did put it up on my About page to test it, but it totally spoiled the look of the page and I took it off immediately.
Since it has the back-end under control, MyCybertwin should focus on making the front-end more customizable. While I don’t see it becoming every blogger’s personalized Ms Dewey, I do expect it, or its clones, to become a very addictive widget for bloggers and MySpace enthusiasts. But, before I put it on my blog, I’ll wait for it to fix the front-end.
