First Robot to get Facebook profile

But it just got me thinking about what role robots will play in the future?

Me and @ShaunMarshal have had a few conversations which must seem ridiculous to passers by about;

• what robots will be doing for us in the future
• how long until we are living and interacting with robots on a daily basis
• how long before they overthrow the us and destroy the human race!

Even writing now it sounds crazy but as technology gets increasingly powerful and smaller how long is it until we enter an iRobot type world?
Thinking back to articles I’ve read and videos I’ve seen they have robots that look like humans, act like humans and learn like humans. Now add that to the fact that there are plenty of Hollywood movies where robots end up in charge and go on some murderous rampage.
What you get is a human like creature that learns how to take over the world with their legions of robot allies.

How long before we are all terminated?

Again it may sound like crazy, paranoid ramblings of a mad man but for those of you who have a similar instinct to me i urge you to watch The Terminator 1 – 3, A.I., iRobot, Transformers, RoboCop, Universal Soldier and that one where the robot guy is driving a yellow taxi, so we can anticipate any form of attack!

I shall be keeping a firm eye on this whole robot up-rise, i just urge you that global warming may be threatening are world over the next 100 years, but the dawn of a robot age could be soon upon us!

Update!: Now Japan has developed Worlds first robot teacher! > Actually quite funny looking at the pictures, is very freaky, but where will this lead us, teaching is a well paid job, will robots be the future of teaching?

Before i get into the numbers i thought I’d just give my overview and thoughts. I think i have been doing an OK job so far of actually trying to boost my web presence, i have been blogging on a occasion basis, updating my twitter feed and looking at trends, as well as regularly checking my Google rankings. But i know i need to do more, so I’m gonna up my game as far as blogging and twitter goes so hopefully by update #2 i feel like i should have a 8/10 for effort rather than the 3/10 i feel like so far.

Coding In The Darkness meets Google spider

Although if you have a look at the image to the right, Google found my blog after 45 minutes of posting, so i was very happy with that! I’ll wait to see how well my other posts and website go down but was shocked to see that the blog was picked up so quick when it wasn’t ranked in at least the top 10 pages before and it jumped to 6th.

So the stats so far;

• Twitter follower increase by 5 to 31 (I have had more followers but i seem to be losing some, maybe i am not interesting enough!)
• Blog views was 128 now 223 with an average of 5 views per day
• Facebook – i have decided to drop this stat as i just think it won’t be a good measure
• LinkedIn – still 23 connections, i haven’t done much with LinkedIn put i am looking to get involved with groups soon so we’ll see what comes of it, hopefully some good connections

Google Results

• ben scowen – 5,650 results, 7 out of 10 on the front page are all me and this blog is 6th!
• “ben scowen” – 121 results, same as above

I haven’t looked at anything else yet but i am going to try and impact the top 100 for:

• scowen
• ben! – Will have some competition for that one
• Not sure what else maybe London freelance web designer etc, let me know your ideas.

That will do for this update, i am off now to write some code, buy my domain and re-enter the Twitter-sphere, but next time i am going to add some data from various twitter mash ups, and some more blog stats, but before i go here is a great piece by MediaSnackers who have a guide for entering Social Media for beginners >,
enjoy.

Basically as it stands i have:

• 175 Friends on Facebook
• 26 Followers on Twitter
• A very Old MySpace and Bebo page
• A nearly finished Web Site
• YouTube & Flickr accounts
• And this blog which needs a good shot in the arm

I admit i am selective and don’t add just anyone, i know >90% of my FB friends for instance.

So the EXPERIMENT!
How famous can i get by the end of the year?
Basically i have no idea how i am going to measure it but i want see how many “friends”, “followers”, “subscribers”, how high up the google rankings i get when i search for “Ben Scowen” (and how many are actually me).
I have to learn a lot more about good blogging, SEO, Social Media but there is no better test subject than myself.

So i will set some rules to make the test fair throughout and not cheat.

1. I will not request people to be my friend, follow etc, they must want to join me on there own accord
2. I will blog, tweet, video blog etc as often as possible but at least once a week
3. On certain sites i will become or follow someone but not ask them for a return, i want to make myself visible without forcing myself upon people.

That’s it for rules unless i get some good suggestions, i will post weekly or monthly updates on my progress with graphs etc for all you stat geeks out there.

That’s it, if you have any advice, or can find anyone else who has done similar so i can compare please let me know, but for now,

Stay Classy (Maybe i need a new non Ron-Burgundy sign off?)