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Version 0.2 of CritterVRE is a UK JISC funded VRE project to aid the
annotation of Access Grid sessions by accessing and caching tweets
containing a relevant hashtag. Thanks for comments on previous
experimental service.
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://crew.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/critter">https://crew.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/critter</a><br>
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<p>This tool allows twitter members to login (via twitter) and
register an event. This will trigger a number of actions on the
server.</p>
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<li>Details will be stored about the event: Title, Location,
Virtual Venue (if set), Start Time, End Time, URL and
importantly a HashTag. Note UK time at the moment.<br>
</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/CritterVRE">@CritterVRE</a> will
post a message to the twitter public time line pointing to this
web interface for details</li>
<li>Optionally a similar message will be posted to the registrants
twitter time line.</li>
<li>Shortly before the event is due to start a reminder tweet will
be sent out by <a href="http://twitter.com/CritterVRE">@CritterVRE</a></li>
<li>During the event the twitter search API will be accessed
caching all tweets with the relevant hashtag</li>
<li>If an Access Grid Virtual Venue was registered with the event
a new (h261) video stream will be multicast into the
corresponding Access Grid Virtual Venue to show the associated
tweets.</li>
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This is an experimental service and please try it out. Please report
any problems, ideas for improvements to <a
href="http://twitter.com/CritterVRE">@CritterVRE</a> (as well as
see the terms and conditions on the website :-)<br>
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The following stage to this project will integrate and annotate
recordings.<br>
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yours Martin<br>
<br>
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