LifeMetric.com - Analyzing the World's Moods, Emotions

What can the web tell us about our daily lives, the correlations between feelings and location, how global patterns surface? A lot, I would guess, but to collect and analyze the massive wealth of data on the ether net would take time, quite a bit of it. LifeMetric aims to make it simpler by assigning you the task of mapping out the factors that affect your life, by providing metrics. You start out simply with mood—adjust the slider to indicate happiness or sadness. After that, you’ll be given the choice to subscribe to other metrics such as creativity, sex drive, love, sleep, and activity. Each day, you are to adjust the sliders to indicate how you feel. LifeMetric will graph it all out for you on a chart. You can compare your results with those of the entire LifeMetric community. Users can also fill out profiles giving out their locations, in order that results may be correlated to global areas. New features are on the way.

“lifemetric is a social experiment that aims to track the factors of our lives that shape our society.
Is the world suffering from too little sleep? Is it just me or is everyone stressed today? Are people really happier on Friday than on Monday? These are just a few of the questions we hope to find out.”

This is an interesting idea, mapping the world by social affects—feelings, moods—and linking them with population, location, wealth, dates, etc. The results could be of great social significance. The interface is spare but clean; and it’s incredibly simple to use.

It would be more useful if this service took information from apps like Twitter and Jaiku and used these to provide metrics about how the world is feeling, or if everyone in X area lives stressed. This way users wouldn’t have to register for yet another account and log their feelings on a daily basis. It needs to be easier, more accessible so that users will actually participate.