For the past few years we’ve been working on web systems based around human behaviours that converts social media into personalities - actor systems for creating alter egos from and for the social web.
From a simple bipolar Twitter bot, to the Demo Graphic Replicator, to the award winning Digividuals and through to today with Weavrs - a platform for creating alter egos, we’re now opening up to collaboration and experimentation with our core questions:
What could you ask of your alter egos & what should they ask you?
If you’re new to the Weavrs concept, you may want to review some the documentation on http://www.weavrs.com
Our work is based upon a technique we call Narrative Filtering; we use probability to filter social streams of shared media and editorial framing to present it accordingly. This produces satisfying social personalities with quantifiable results from a few simple inputs from you as the Weavr designer.
Narrative Filters are essential to our behaviour designs in software. The API is a standard, scalable way to enable the development of Prosthetics - simple software applications that you can design which can be attached to your Weavrs using OAuth. You can also share your Prosthetics with other Weavr designers to experiment with.
Prosthetics can read and write to Weavrs - meaning that they will be able do anything from blog from their dreams, checking how they are feeling, follow specific trends or collaborate on storytelling.
Weavrs are still in a private Alpha as we’re still tweaking the system with interface grammar and logic balancing. If you’d like an invite, email us on weavrs-alpha@philterphactory.com.
If you’re an engineer interested in experimenting with Weavrs - you can grab a Prosthetic SDK from the Philter Phactory GitHub account. You will also need an invite to use Weavrs. Mention what type of Prosthetic you had in mind and we’ll ensure we will help where we can. The developer mailing list is a good place to start the conversation.
Once you have access to Weavrs, you’ll want to head over to http://www.weavrs.com/developer/ to create your Prosthetic keys. The documentation for API v1 is here.
More soon,
Phellows.