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The world's first robot with its own Facebook page (and that can use its information in conversations with "friends") has been developed by Nikolaos Mavridis and collaborators from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab at the United Arab Emirates University . The main hypothesis of the FaceBots project is that long-term human robot interaction will benefit by reference to "shared memories" and "events relevant to shared friends" in human-robot dialogues. More to explore: N. Mavridis, W. Kazmi and P. Toulis, "Friends with Faces: How Social Networks Can Enhance Face...

I and my colleague Giuseppe Riva have just published a letter in Science , where we propose crowd-funding - a form of crowdsourcing applied to finance - as a possible strategy to cope with the lack of investments in research. The full text of the article is available here:  gaggioli_riva_science08.pdf Video (Italian only)  

  Re-blogged from InfoAesthetics a web-based application prototype that allows participants to provide direct responses to current issues facing their governments on a selection...

From Textually.org                                   The Cell Freak reports on a cell phone experiment by 27 year-old Luke Johnson from...

Via Networked Performance   Networks have become a powerful metaphor for explaining the social realities of our times. A network, defined minimally, is a system of interconnected...