Month: August 2011
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Measuring use of Social Media during live TV events
Lately I’ve been postulating ways to get some meaningful data out of social media like Twitter. While half paying attention to a Formula One race in the background on the TV, I twigged on to an interesting experiment. I generated a Formula One relevant filter to use with the Twitter Streaming API, whereby Twitter would…
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Flying, Fishing, Time-saving Bots in World of Warcraft!
Recently I have been revisiting projects from the past – hundreds of little toys, gadgets, fragments of code. One example of that I’m going to talk about here… In the infamous MMORPG that is World of Warcraft, there are many vanity items that are intentionally a massive time sink to acquire. Obtaining these items can…