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By anselm | Published: April 13, 2009
Last night at makerlab we were talking about dating sites a bit - commenting on how strange it was that they didn't leverage social networks. For fun today I threw a fun idea together as a test of how to make dating more social. It isn't terribly serious but perhaps amusing. I like to combine talk with praxis. Here it is:
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Iraq Deaths TwitterBot

By anselm | Published: April 2, 2009
We’ve posted an update to our Iraq Deaths agent at http://twitter.com/iraqdeaths . Here I’m going to journal and document the work involved in making this actually work. At a high level this agent makes a daily post to twitter to broadcast any deaths reported by the Iraq War Bodycount database. I should mention that without their efforts [...]
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Measuring the Speed of Social Networks

By caseorganic | Published: November 30, 2008
We can estimate the relative speed of social networks based on profile to response ratio. Twitter has a high profile to response ratio. Each environment and person’s profile is compressed for light transit. Myspace has more social geography. Each user has more visual and textual space. Each space is capable of being altered in size, shape, [...]
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