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Can you explain what exactly "donating my cursor" does?

It's something like the 'facebook like' button, but it's more like an experiment for my graduation. I want to become an intern at Valve, that's why I've made this website.

If you have any feedback, please let me now :) Thanks!

Have you got in touch with Valve? If not give me a shout and I can give a couple of people a poke to take a look...

Not yet. I was planning to put it up on the Steam community first and sending and e-mail later on to Valve (and Gabe himself of course).

I'll wait until the (HN) storm has passed first.

But if you could help me out, that will be great. Thanks!

Ok, cool, you've got my cursor. Do you have any ideas on what to add to steam stats on that site somewhere? I'm an avid steam (mostly valve) gamer myself, and I like to keep track of accuracy, headshots, etc. What would you add?

I'm really not sure what kind of data I can use for all the statistics (not sure what kind of data they collect from everyone, except your status and achievements). But I'm hoping to make it somewhat more personal, so you could share it with your friends and stuff.

But I sure can use some help on what kind of data is interesting.

One thing I'd personally like is an analytics type of view for my stats. i.e. graphs of different stats over time to show improvement. I don't know how much social stuff there is to be done, because steam already has a decent community view. I'd definitely like to talk in depth about it if you're looking to discuss things. My contact info is in my profile if you're interested.

Leaderboards, progress, achievements... it should all be there.

I'll contact you if I'll be an intern at Valve! Thanks :D

Look at hlstats. :)

Have you seen the statistics in the TF2 Lobby matchmaking system? http://tf2lobby.com

There is also http://tf2stats.com and you can view stats of online steam game http://en.allgamestats.net/

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