William Hung Makes an Appearance at the AOL Developers Conference?

Hi folks -- so the AOL Developers Conference was pretty good, even for a non-techie like me (though I don't think we'll ever match the level of, say, Steve Ballmer's now-legendary performance at a Microsoft developer conference in 2001).

Tomorrow, I'll talk more about the keynote address, which was given by Don Tapscott, author of the book Wikinomics -- it was very interesting, and chock-full of quotes.

For now, though, I just want to share a photo from CTO Balan Nair's intro; during his intro, he talked a little about AOL Labs, including their Celebrity Look-Alike project.

As I blogged earlier, I suggested that their matching algorhythm might need some work, since I don't think I look particularly like William Hung.

Apparently, I was right, since here's a picture of Balan Nair:

And here is his look-alike results page (he's on the right):

On the left side is Barry Appelman, who looks even less like William Hung. So I think their matching engine may have a William Hung bias.

[Update, 6/15: OK, the Labs folks let me know that the above results were doctored up as a joke. I missed the joke. See my followup blog entry for more info, and see the AOL Labs Celebrity Look-Alikes blog for the real results and more.]

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: aol developers conference, balan nair, william hung bias, barry appelman