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http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/man-dies-of-internet-gaming/
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Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg “The Sky Is Falling”.It’s the family piece that I would want to replace if Facebook went down. The games and apps and fan pages I could live without.Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg “The Sky Is Falling”.It’s the... more
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Social networking behemoth Facebook has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment firm in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, The New York Times reported.
Goldman invested $450 million and Digital Sky Technologies invested $50 million, the newspaper reported Sunday in its online edition, citing people involved in the transaction that it did not name. Goldman has the right to sell part of its stake, up to $75 million, to the Russian firm.
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/ap/Business/74820Social networking behemoth Facebook has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a... more
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![the twitterbot has been unplugged [long live the twitterbot]](http://i2.crtcdn1.net/images/spacer.gif)
Approximately one month ago we launched an experiment called twitterbot. Over the course of one month, twitterbot gathered tweets related to items being discussed on current.com and posted them as comments. It racked up a total of 308 comments, and proceeded to spark a debate in the community about whether or not the twitterbot was useful, or just a nuisance.
You spoke, we listened.
As of a few days ago, twitterbot has posted it's last tweet on current.com for a while. We still have a pretty definitive set of plans we intend to work on for twitterbot, which means it will return one day, but for the time being we felt it was best to pull the plug.
Here are a couple examples of plans we have for the twitterbot:
Tie current.com profiles to twitter profiles and allow our community to post items and comments via tweets. these wouldn't appear as "twitterbot" posts, but instead as your own post/comment on current.com. just another way to participate
The twitterbot would continue to scan twitter for tweets related to articles, but once the tweet has been posted as a comment, the original twitterer would get an @reply informing them of the discussion going on over in the current.com community. They could then have the option of signing in on current.com via their twitter profile, and reclaim the tweet as their own comment.
A few of you might be thinking, "Aw, those ideas sound sweet! Why kill twitterbot if that's the plan?"
The answer is pretty simple. We have a lot on our development plate, and in order to get where we are going we needed to make some compromises. In my opinion, the twitterbot test was a success. However, it did rub some of our community members the wrong way. We have a somewhat lengthy road ahead of us working on some unannounced projects like xxxxxxx xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx xxxxx, and xxx xxxxxxx xxx. We want to get our "bumps to TV" concept back in action, and this is proving to be a pretty big endeavor. In addition, after groups launches we will have another cycle dedicated to added group functionality. All of this stuff takes time and resources, so we decided to forgo some of the twitterbot work for the time being.
Plus, it felt wrong to keep it plugged in and active when so many were frustrated and/or confused by it in the first place. Thank you guys for the feedback, we certainly take it into consideration, and when twitterbot finally gets plugged back in you can rest assured it will be a different experience.Approximately one month ago we launched an experiment called twitterbot. Over the... more
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This post is long overdue, so I apologize for the delay. A couple weeks ago we launched a little something we've dubbed the twitterbot. Our reasons for launching it made sense (I'll get to this in a minute), but we didn't quite realize how well it would work, let alone how much attention it would get from our community.
To answer the titular question, twitterbot is a simple bot that scours Twitter in search of links to stories being discussed on Current.com. When it finds matches, it posts those tweets on the related story on Current.com.
Here's an example: China made headlines recently when they blocked social network sites like Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube. They even went as far as blocking Hotmail and MSN's new Bing search engine.
However, when the story first hit Current.com the only site that was knowingly blocked was Twitter, so singrrr titled her submission: "China blocks Twitter ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary."
People tweeted the Huffington Post story the singrrr had posted on Current.com, while the story continued to unfold about YouTube, Flickr, and other sites being blocked. Twitterbot made a connection between tweets including the Huffington Post story and singrrr's Current.com post, and began attaching tweets to the discussion section on Current.com.
We realized that the story had actually expanded to include other services, so we updated the title to include more information.
Why launch twitterbot?
While the case outlined above is an example of twitterbot working well, we actually had another reason for launching this. We are extremely interested in the ability to create items on CDC using tweets. We created twitterbot as a means to test this idea out, while also being able to pull in potentially interesting commentary from Twitter.
What have we learned?
Well, it works. However, there are some kinks we recognize that need fixing. First of all, having twitterbot tweets appear in our discussion space is an odd experience, so we are working through some layout changes that should hopefully help separate the two in a much more meaningful way.
Also, the twitterbot was a little too aggressive when we first launched, so we've made some tweaks to the filtering patterns. For example, we've throttled the number of twitterbot posts allowed on an individual story, and we've also eliminated tweets that include a Current.com URL in them.
DeliaTheArtist helped us out with that one, as every time she tweeted a Current.com submission, her tweet would be the first comment to appear on the Current.com story page via twitterbot. Obviously less than ideal, and now the twitterbot should know better.
We'll continue to tweak and enhance our twitterbot, and as I mentioned this is the first step to something much bigger involving integration with Twitter on Current.com. So, if you have feedback or suggestions, please let us know on Get Satisfaction!
Ed. Note: The Twitterbot story continues, and it involves unplugging...take a look.
This post is long overdue, so I apologize for the delay. A couple weeks ago we... more
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Some would argue the opposite. . .
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