Social automation and APIs

Intro

• The Wire - Frank Sabotka's Concerned With The Future
• Computers and Automation Scare of the 1950s
• Automation Scare in a Bakery

Creatively (mis)usings APIs and automation

• Custom API
  • Dronestream
  • Dronestagram
  • Botanicalls * Tracking Transience (NYT Article)
• Twitter
  • Everyword
  • On Kawara tribute
  • Darius Kazemi
  • Horse_ebooks
  • breakup predictor
• Facebook
  • Face To Facebook
  • Ssocial Roulette
  • Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
  • I Like What I See
  • The Whatever Button
  • Pete Warden sued by FB
• Automating People * Mechanical Turk
  • Social Turkers
  • Laborers of Love
  • Crowd Workers of the World Unite * Task Rabbit
  • NYC
  • Human alarm clock
  • Example Task Rabbit * Gigwalk * AirBnb * Craigslist
• Foursquare
  • Hell is other people
  • http://avoidhumans.com
  • Girls around me
  • Please rob me
• Dating
  • https://github.com/shawn-simon/OkCupid
  • A More Perfect Union
• SMS
  • Breakup Text
  • Makeup Text
  • A More Perfect Union, Luke DuBois
• Death
  • Fatalatour
• Amazon
  • Other People Also Bought
• Google
  • Search by image
  • Google Translate
  • GWEI
• Other automation
  • http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/9/queer-history-computing-part-three/
  • Self Portrait Bot
  • DanmatsuMouse
  • DesktopBAM
  • How to become internet famous for $68
• Other rules and protocols
  • The Essential Guide to Performing Michael Mandiberg
  • Learning to Love You More
  • Almost human: the surreal cyborg future of telemarketing
  • The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
  • How One Boy with Autism Became BFF with Apple's Siri
  • Robot Eyes for Bitchy Resting Face

Tools

• General
  • www.programmableweb.com - giant list of APIs and resources
  • www.kimonolabs.com - easy tool for turning any website into an API
  • temboo.com - simple APIs for many services in many languages
• Google scripting
  • http://www.google.com/script/start/
  • InboxUnread source
• OAuth 1.0
  • https://github.com/bakercp/ofxOAuth - an OF OAuth 1.0 system (via liboauth) with pin-less verification via a mini callback server Examples for Twitter, Tumblr, Vimeo, Fitbit, etc.
• Twitter - https://dev.twitter.com
  • https://github.com/drewvergara/ofxTwitter - implementation of Twitter API with OF
  • keytweeter source
  • Processing examples with Twitter4J
• Facebook - https://developers.facebook.com/
  • https://github.com/igiso/ofxFacebook - implementation of FB SDK 3.0 with OF
• Mechanical Turk
  • Kitchen Table Coders workshop resouces
  • https://github.com/jefftimesten/mturk - nodejs wrapper for MTurk
  • https://github.com/mdp/rturk - ruby wrapper for MTurk
  • https://github.com/twitter/clockworkraven - webapp for MTurk interface, created by Twitter
  • http://aws.amazon.com/code/Amazon-Mechanical-Turk
• IFTTT
  • https://ifttt.com/channels
  • https://github.com/cido/ifttt-channel-extensions - create custom IFTTT channels
• OkCupid
  • https://github.com/trek/lonely_coder - ruby scraper interface
  • https://github.com/shawn-simon/OkCupid - nodejs scraper / automated message sender interface
• Computer interaction
  • RobotDemo source - using the java robot to type and move the mouse
  • EmojiPaster source - using the java robot to paste text * phantom.js

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