February 29, 2008
What's Everyone Twittering About?
I gave myself half an hour for this, all told, which means I've only 5 mins left to write this post, so the demo isn't as far on as I'd hoped (I got sidetracked, needless to say...)
Anyway, I've started thinking about feed annotation streams again, so I put together a minimal pipe: basic twitter annotation feed
(The actual pipe has changed a bit - now you just need to add your Twitter username, and it will grab your twitter friends feed.)
What the pipe does is just loop through every item in an RSS feed, run the description through the Yahoo Term Extractor/content analysis web service, use the outcome of that service (i.e. the extracted terms) as the search term(s) in a normal Yahoo search, and then replace each twitter feed item link with a link to the top search result found based on content analysis of that tweet.
The extratced term is actually placed in the author attribute of each item for safe keeping.
Got that..? ;-) Easy peasy - tiny pieces, each joined one to the next...
Anyway, what prompted me to post was this little bit of round tripping...
Brian K tweeted:
"Of interest to @PeteJ and @adrianstevenson? "Lookout MySpace: Facebook targets bands and filmmakers" - http://rurl.org/jec"
Yahoo extracted: filmmakers lookout targets
Yahoo search returned, as top hit: Lookout MySpace: Facebook targets bands and filmmakers | The Social Web | ZDNet.com with URL http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=413
Brian K had included in his tweet the shortened URL http://rurl.org/jec, which actually resolves to... http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=413
PS hmmm - has twitter just died?
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Tags: fastreams, feedannotation , twitter
Posted by ajh59 at February 29, 2008 10:08 AM