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03-02-2009, 12:27 AM
<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td width=80 align=center valign=top><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4i-0&fd=R&url=http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars&cid=1305075280&ei=QHyrSaLnLoWEkQT8le3mAw&usg=AFQjCNGacvM13w-BMjTmpBUmSXXD1HtZmQ"><img src=http://nt3.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=H2pbK7YsktcJ&imgurl=static.arstechnica.com/2009/02/15/evercrack.jpg width=66 height=80 alt="" border=1><br><font size=-2>Ars Technica</font></a></font></td><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-0&fd=R&url=http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars&cid=1305075280&ei=QHyrSaLnLoWEkQT8le3mAw&usg=AFQjCNGacvM13w-BMjTmpBUmSXXD1HtZmQ">Science gleans 60TB of behavior data from <b>Everquest</b> 2 logs</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Ars Technica,&nbsp;MA</font></font><br><font size=-1>Thanks to a partnership with Sony, a team of academic researchers have obtained the largest set of data on social interactions they&#39;ve ever gotten their hands on: the complete server logs of <b>Everquest</b> 2, which track every action performed in the game. <b>...</b></font><br><font size=-1><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-1&fd=R&url=http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl%3Fsid%3D09/02/16/0621242&cid=1305075280&ei=QHyrSaLnLoWEkQT8le3mAw&usg=AFQjCNFGWJJuJNsDPadXxcCOPSA0RObaAg">Researchers Snag 60 TB of <b>Everquest</b> 2 Behavioral Data</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>Slashdot</nobr></font></font><br><font size=-1><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-2&fd=R&url=http://blogs.fayobserver.com/techsassy/2009/02/17/researchers-examine-gamer-behavior-from-60tb-of-everquest-2-data/&cid=1305075280&ei=QHyrSaLnLoWEkQT8le3mAw&usg=AFQjCNGPgb6DTfMgvx56HZew48JIB81XnA">Researchers examine gamer behavior from 60TB of <b>EverQuest</b> 2 data</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>FayObserver.com</nobr></font></font><br><font size=-1><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-3&fd=R&url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/feb/18/game-everquest-online-virtual-world-social-network-analysis&cid=1305075280&ei=QHyrSaLnLoWEkQT8le3mAw&usg=AFQjCNF2kMLNcTIB4SIzwefeVu2DRZECbg">Online game data, offline results: <b>Everquest</b> 2 server logs offer <b>...</b></a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>EducationGuardian.co.uk</nobr></font></font><br><font size=-1 class=p><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-4&fd=R&url=http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php%3Farticle_id%3D420114&cid=1305075280&ei=QHyrSaLnLoWEkQT8le3mAw&usg=AFQjCNHQyiveVJONmJXkKsLhvfBHvYOg0A"><nobr>Eurogamer</nobr></a>&nbsp;- <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-5&fd=R&url=http://www.allakhazam.com/story.html%3Fstory%3D16967&cid=1305075280&ei=QHyrSaLnLoWEkQT8le3mAw&usg=AFQjCNG-nPpD9lzTFOfdANHpYq1Eec-Gbg"><nobr>Allakhazam</nobr></a></font><br/><font class=p size=-1><a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&ncl=1305075280><nobr>all 6 news articles</nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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