hoowat

Last week we released a new version of our site with some fun new features. For example, you can now rate how well your look-alikes match your photo or rate how well other look-alike pairs match, and then you can see how other people are rating the look-alike pairs also! In addition, if you make the person in your photo “almost famous”, you can now also provide the URL to that person’s profile page if that person has one on www.myspace.com, www.wayn.com, profiles.aimpages.com, or memberdirectory.aol.com! This enables people who receive that person as a look-alike to visit that person’s page to learn more about his or her “twin”. So go ahead and try out these exciting additions and tell us what you think about them!

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Today we released a new version of our site with some exciting new features. You can now search for look-alikes among Chinese celebrities or Korean celebrities! You also can get up to 6 celebrity look-alikes and 6 “almost famous” look-alikes. In addition, if we cannot automatically detect a face in your image, you can tell us where the face is located, and we will then use that information to return look-alike results to you! Furthermore, if you upload a picture with multiple people in it, we provide you the ability to tell us for which person you would like to find look-alikes. We encourage you to try out these additions to our product!

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Today we released a redesigned web site – please let us know whether or not you like this look better. Also, you can know submit pictures using your webcam. In addition, a few days ago we added a number of additional celebrities (both minor and major) to our database. As such, we encourage you to see if you get new and better matches.

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Do you have a “twin” somewhere in the world that you don’t even know about? Now you can find out! Last week we released a new version of our hoowat product that allows you to find both “Almost Famous” look-alikes and celebrity look-alikes. The “Almost Famous” people come from images that have been submitted by users like you in the “Make ‘em Almost Famous” step. You can choose to receive three "Almost Famous" matches and one celebrity match when you select the “Almost Famous” category in Step 3 or receive three celebrity matches and one “Almost Famous” match when you select the “Famous” category in Step 3 (don’t forget to then select whether you are interested in Hollywood or Bollywood celebrities).

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And now, you even have more options with mobile! If you email images you have taken with your camera phone to m@hoowat.com, you will receive an SMS that provides a link to three male “Almost Famous” look-alikes and one male celebrity look-alike. Similarly, when you email your picture to f@hoowat.com, you will receive an SMS that provides a link to three female “Almost Famous” look-alikes and one female celebrity look-alike. And if you email your picture to both@hoowat.com, you will receive an SMS that provides a link to three “Almost Famous” look-alikes and one celebrity look-alike of either gender. So go ahead and find both your “famous” and “almost famous” matches!

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Our first release of hoowat is a mobile version of our www.findmycelebritylookalike.com site. With hoowat, you can find out which celebrities you look like using your camera phone!

Have you ever been stopped by a stranger on the street who asked you  “Hey -- aren’t you that actor in the movie about …”? Have you ever wondered if you look like a particular celebrity? Well, now is your chance to find out! You can use our first release of our hoowat product to automatically determine which celebrities look most similar to the person in a photo that you submit. You can submit a photo either by using the web site www.hoowat.com or by using your camera phone. You can use your camera phone to take a photo and them email the photo to mc@hoowat.com to get male "Hollywood" celebrity look-alikes, fc@hoowat.com to get female "Hollywood" celebrity look-alikes, or c@hoowat.com to get "Hollywood" celebrities of both genders. If you are interested in Bollywood celebrities, you can email the photo to mb@hoowat.com to get male "Bollywood" celebrity look-alikes, fb@hoowat.com to get female "Bollywood" celebrity look-alikes, or b@hoowat.com to get "Bollywood" celebrities of both genders. You then will receive an SMS that contains a link to four celebrities look-alikes. These celebrity look-alikes are generated with the use of advanced facial recognition technology that was developed by AOL Labs in collaboration with Oxford University and Caltech University. 

So go ahead and try it – and be famous! 

And keeping checking this blog -- we have an exciting release planned for next month!

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