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By Dave Nicholson: http://metatv.cz/channels/OpenInformatics/38889039

Game maker Valve has appointed an in-house economist to help manage the virtual economies that have sprung up around its many titles. Check it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18456171 Gopal

An interesting report from the Cabinet Office’s Behavioural Insights Team on behaviour change and energy use - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/behaviour-change-and-energy-use.

An interesting collective switching company – http://www.thepeoplespower.co.uk/. Ed Davey spoke about collective switching again this morning on the Today programme.

“The deregulated structure of UK market is uniquely challenging for rapid and co-ordinated action in a large scale initiative like this and we believe that smart meter deployment in 65% of UK homes by 2015 is not possible,” said Mark England, Sentec’s CEO. “There is a great deal of work still to do to finalise […]

** Kickstarter scam project exposed ** Crowdsourced funding site Kickstarter suffers what is thought to be its first fake project – a video game claiming the involvement of Disney.

Hi, this could be of interest to some: a new system called Twitcident,recently demoed at the WWW12 conference, aims to help emergency servicescope with extreme uncertainty by filtering and organising social networkinformation:http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/04/making-twitter-make-sense-for.html James

This was circulated today in our lab and I thought it might be of interest to those of us who are doing work in crowdsourcing. It is basically a camera that instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk API. I thought the concept and […]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17668573 This is related to our agentswitch project where consumers can find best tariff deals for their consumption data.  http://intranet.orchid.ac.uk/wiki/agentswitch

A cool US wind map: http://hint.fm/wind/