These guys are just too adorable. Geeks FTW!

We’ve all been searching for him.  Some have found a painting of him, while others found an advertisement photo of him.  Well, the real Waldo finally decided to show up, pose and wave to the Google Maps car in the UK.

Applying to a guild on World of Warcraft sucks and you know it.  You look to find the guild you THINK best fits your game style and your personality.  You find their website, go to their forums and apply.  Usually you have to put your raid experience, 2 to 3 paragraphs of why they should accept you and so forth.

Even if you get into that guild you applied for, there is no “preview” of how the guild operates.  You’re basically thrown into the deep end of the pool.  If you don’t learn the play style, humor, and other protocols of the guild, you’re likely to get kicked.

Enter, WoW Headhunter.  A WoW web app that matches you with a guild that best fits your personality.

Instead of you looking around for that “perfect guild”, WoW headhunter looks for you.  You could say it’s just like an eHarmony.com website.  But instead of single people looking for a relationship, it’s guildless people looking for a guild in Azeroth. It also works the other way around.  If you’re a guild leader looking for some quality troops, put your guild in the system and STOP SPAMMING THE GENERAL AND TRADE CHATS for people to join your guild.

The system requires you to to answer a few questions to learn about how you are in WoW.  Sure it’s a little long, but I’d rather do that than applying the old way multiple times. Ugh.  The survey learns the following about you:

Here is their official press release:

MYGAMEMUG RELEASES INTELLIGENT “JOB BOARD”

FOR WORLD OF WARCRAFT GUILD LEADERS AND PLAYERS

WoW Headhunter Helps WoW Guilds Recruit Members That Fit Just Right

MARCH 23, 2009, SAN MATEO, CA – MyGameMug™, an online service that helps gamers find fun players to play with, today launched its WoW Headhunter™ service to all World of Warcraft gamers. WoW Headhunter streamlines the guild recruiting process by analyzing guilds and players across ten personality dimensions and feeding highly-qualified candidates to guild leaders based on the match of their in-game goals and personalities.

WoW Headhunter is the first guild recruitment service that uses a scientific yet “human” approach for guild recruitment. MyGameMug built WoW Headhunter to help guild leaders recruit based on a candidate’s personality fit with existing guild members and not just on gaming credentials.

“We see skillful candidates all the time, but if they don’t have chemistry with our guild, it’s useless to recruit them,” explains Matthew Low, known as Matticus, a guild leader and columnist for WoW Insider. “WoW Headhunter will be an incredible recruiting asset to GMs of any guild, whether large, small, casual, hardcore, raiding, PvP, or anything in between.”

By analyzing personality and cultural fit in advance, WoW Headhunter also significantly reduces the time required for the guild recruitment process. “Our typical recruitment process takes 3 to 6 weeks per candidate, and with a service like this available, we can recruit more qualified candidates in a shorter period of time,” explains Paul Lovato, the leader of Insomnia, a top guild in the United States. “Also, I’ll now spend less time filling vacancies as our new members stick with us longer.”

MyGameMug was founded by Ray Lau and Erik Yao, avid gamers themselves, who started the company with the hope of eliminating the frustration they experienced over incompatible players in their favorite games. MyGameMug designed WoW Headhunter to complement existing World of Warcraft sites and processes that guild leaders and candidates already use.

According to Ray Lau, MyGameMug’s CEO, “Managing a WoW guild is very similar to managing a company or sports team, and joining a guild can be an equally important step. If you want to have a good experience, there has to be a personality and cultural fit. WoW Headhunter quickly and simply makes sure this is the case for everyone involved.”

Guild leaders can register their guild for WoW Headhunter and start recruiting in just minutes by going to http://wowheadhunter.com and taking a short gamer personality test. WoW players looking to join a guild can do the same and begin applying to compatible guilds. WoW Headhunter is currently a free service for guild leaders and candidates alike.

About MyGameMug:

WoW Headhunter (http://wowheadhunter.com) is a service of MyGameMug (http://mygamemug.com). MyGameMug helps gamers locate each other based on the fit of their personalities and goals. The company is based in San Mateo, California and is funded by Tandem Entrepreneurs and LaunchBox Digital.

For additional information, please visit: http://mygamemug.com.

Media Contact:

Darren Allarde
650-346-5544
press@mygamemug.com

Seems like making your own periodic table based on your favorite hobby or video games is all the craze now.  I’m not sure why, but it does seem like a cool idea.  The above Final Fantasy chart was made by a geekologie reader, Rafi.  Below are two more periodic tables that are making it’s rounds through the intarwebs.

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During the Today show, right before a commercial break, Stephen has mentioned that he has “Twatted.” I guess that’ll be the new term for past tense “tweeting.” If not, I’ll be using it nonetheless. The best parts are when you can tell Stephen was just trying to be cute, seconds later, he realizes what he had just said on live TV. The other is the hosts response was “well, so have I.”