Business - Written Tuesday, November 3, 2009 by Gautam Lamba - 14 Comments

Color coding the Internet

For all the different ways to communicate that the internet offers – blogs, wikis, tweets, status updates etc – it still lacks a rather basic functionality, the ability to convey emotion. In everyday, real life interactions, we unconsciously pick up on non-verbal cues (body language, gestures) and particularities of tone, inflection and stressed words to round out our interpretation of a message.

On the internet, however, these common tools are either unavailable or extremely hard to convey. For example, consider these variations of 1 sentence:

“Ever seen a polar bear?” vs. “Ever seen a polar bear?” Continue…