IFTF: Social Bot Competition 2012As part of last week's Fall Technology Horizons conference, IFTF teamed up with Pacific Social Architecting Corporation to host a first of its kind Social Bot Competition. Tim Hwang and the team at Pacific Social put together a web form to design a social bot–a bit of code the impersonates a real person—or in my case, several bots. Creating these bots, as it turns out, was easier than opening a ne
