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Mar 03 2008

Thethirdeye.org: An automated technology news website

Thethirdeye is an automated technology website, powered by a software agent - programmed in C#.

The software agent works by crawling a list of websites, sent to the software agent periodically, which then parses the page and retrieves all the headlines and then submits it to the server.

The server then uses a small algorithm for populating the news based on a number of factors, which are:

- Date of when the headline was published.

- The website from which the article was posted on.

- How often the publishers website has occurred on the homepage of thethirdeye.

- The amount of associated Twitter discussions, Facebook Discussions.

- How often a headline has appeared on the internet.