Social Bomb was mentioned in a recent CNet article on ITP!

One project in the works is from a team led by first-year student Adam Simon. Called “People Rank,” or “Social Bomb,” it is a system designed to automatically measure social reputation and popularity through a game.

Essentially, players wear a small gadget, and then the technology measures people’s reputations and popularity by how they interact with others and to whom they talk. The more they talk to people, the more their score goes up, and vice versa. But the system can also detract a user’s points based on the popularity of the person he is talking to.

It ran on the front page of News.com last Tuesday. I’m a bit embarrassed about somehow being pegged the leader of the group - Scott Varland and Mike Dory have put as much, if not more, work into the project as I have.

We should have more announcements about Social Bomb soon, leading up to playing a public game at the ITP Spring Show on May 8 & 9 - here’s the show page for Social Bomb.