March 03, 2008

Feed Annotation Streams - serendipiTwitterous

Last week, I wrote a post - "What's Everyone Twittering About?" - that described a basic Twitter feed annotation pipe.

I've been thinking about feed annotation streams, and how they can be used, for so long that of course one of the possible next steps - like the step I didn't post, the step is so blindingly obvious that I didn't need to post it, was the step that no-one got...

Martin summed it up quite neatly: "I think I need a Tony translator..."

(I think I actually need a writing monkey - someone who can write up some of the more interesting doodles and tinkerings that appear on this blog and take the couple of days out each write up would need to get  them into journals and conferences and all those other quaint publishing fora that academia seems to value for promotion cases et al. ;-) I'd share the paper credits of course :-)

So - when I posted about the twitter feed annotation pipe, this is one of the things I saw - now I can do this:

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Actually, I went away and added a few more things to the pipe - the content analysis terms are now also used to search Youtube and slideshare. Any Youtube results can be viewed inline:

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I also added the option to view more search results:

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Remember, the search terms are the terms that the Yahoo content analysis/term extractor service returns when it is passed the tweet...

If you want to play with it (the page load time is a bit slow - but bear with it), the web app can be found here: serendipiTwitterous

(The URL has change from the URL I twittered over the weekend - so if you bookmarked that URL, please replace it with the new one: http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/serendipitwitterous/ or http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/serendipitwitterous/?id=yourTwitterID)

The pipe can be found here: serendipiTwitterous pipe

Just input your twitter id and go... :-)

PS if you click on the id of the sender of a serendipiTweet, it will show you their serendipiTwitterous feed ;-)

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Posted by ajh59 at March 3, 2008 02:00 PM
Comments

It is a very nice idea ... unfortunately, if I use a twitter account that writes in Spanish (like myself), the results are kind of bad ... :):

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/serendipitwitterous/?id=hombrelobo

Also, it searches for tinyurl .... :D

Thanks for the fun !

Posted by: hombrelobo at March 3, 2008 02:33 PM

so is there a spanish content analysis web service, and a spanish language search engine (ideally with an opensearch/rss api) that i could use to localise it? ;-)

Posted by: Tony Hirst at March 3, 2008 02:36 PM

partial spanish version of serendipitwitterous - the tweet is translated to english at the start of the pipe...

./serendipitwitterous-spanish.php (URL subject to change)

Posted by: Tony Hirst at March 3, 2008 03:12 PM