Twindle is a set of scripts for Twitter data analysis. The tools include a streaming API client which can store Twitter status updates into a Postgres database as well as a variety of scripts used for data housekeeping, status categorization and trend extraction.
Tag: social
Apache Rave is a new web and social mashup engine. It will provide an out-of-the-box as well as an extendible lightweight Java platform to host, serve and aggregate (Open)Social Gadgets and services through a highly customizable and Web 2.0 friendly front-end. Rave is targeted as engine for internet and intranet portals and as building block to provide context-aware personalization and collaboration features for multi-site/multi-channel (mobile) oriented and content driven websites and (social) network oriented services and platforms. For the OpenSocial container and services the (Java) Apache Shindig will be integrated. At a later stage further generalization is envisioned to also transparently support W3C Widgets using Apache Wookie.
thenextweb/TNW-Social-Count – GitHub
TNW Social Count is a WordPress plugin that solves the problem of social sharing the proper way. No more third-party scripts that slow down your site and ugly buttons that clutter your design. The plugin has two parts: The backend part saves the number of Twitter retweets, Facebook likes, Google Plus and LinkedIn shares as post_meta information. The frontend part renders a share button on the same fashion as on The Next Web blog.
From this data, I devised a very simple method to stop comment spam without CAPTCHAs. Require JavaScript, and require a focus event. Those two should prevent all but the most determined customized comment spammers
Voting Methods (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
This article introduces and critically examines a number of different voting methods. The goal is not to provide a general overview of social choice theory or even a comprehensive account of voting theory. Rather, my objective is to highlight and discuss key results and issues that underlie phenomena that we observe when decision makers come together to make a collective decision.
Extracting Events and Event Descriptions from Twitter
This paper describes methods for automatically detecting events
involving known entities fromTwitter and understanding both the
events as well as the audience reaction to them.
Extracting Events and Event Descriptions from Twitter
This paper describes methods for automatically detecting events
involving known entities fromTwitter and understanding both the
events as well as the audience reaction to them.
Facebook’s Instant Personalization: An Analysis of Fundamental Privacy Flaws « 33 Bits of Entropy
Instant Personalization allows a partner website to automatically learn the identity of a visitor (as well as some data about them) without any explicit user action, provided that the visitor is a logged-in Facebook user. It is probably the most privacy-intrusive change introduced by the company this year, and could lead to a profound change in how the web works and is perceived.
High Scalability – High Scalability – Twitter’s Plan to Analyze 100 Billion Tweets
If Twitter is the “nervous system of the web” as some people think, then what is the brain that makes sense of all those signals (tweets) from the nervous system? That brain is the Twitter Analytics System
The Ident Engine is part of a year long personal project into combining social graph data with other open data sources. With over 1.3 billion hCard profiles on the web and RDF growing in strength, the semantic web has reached a tipping point. I built the Ident Engine to show that constructing user experiences by blending semantic web APIs and other open data sources is not only practical, but offers exciting opportunities.
A sample Facebook application with CodeIgniter. « Junal on the run
Just as the title suggests, this article shows how to build a simple Facebook application based on the Codeigniter framework.
Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.
RubyForge: Starling: Project Info
Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.
Main Page – Croquet Consortium
Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable. The Croquet architecture supports synchronous communication, collaboration, resource sharing and computation among large numbers of users on multiple platforms and multiple devices.
Monstropedia – the largest encyclopedia about monsters
A small but growing encyclopedia of furry teethy meanies
DutchPIPE – PHP/AJAX Interactive Virtual Environments on Websites
With DutchPIPE open source software, web developers can make virtual multi-user environments. Each web page becomes an abstracted environment or location where visitors and other items on the page are visualized. This status is retained as visitors move around. A lot of real-time interaction is possible. The result: Persistent Interactive Page Environments. DutchPIPE uses AJAX and the DOM for the browser – it works without Java, Flash, plug-in or firewall adjustments. On the server, PHP 5 is used.
PHPizabi is one of the most powerful social networking platforms on the planet. With literally thousands of websites powered by PHPizabi including everything from simple friends sites to the most complex networking super sites out there. Easy to install, use, and raising the bar on what it is to provide a reliable, fast, social networking package to raise your business to the next level.
Lots of very bold statements but the screenshots do look good. They claim they can scale up to a million users, that they have thousands of installations running and this is the eight generation of their software. Why the version number says 0.8 remains a mystery.
Use Trailfire to extend your blog out onto the web. Don’t just link to a web page, take your reader there and continue the conversation in a Trailfire mark. Once you’ve used Trailfire to help make your point, add another mark to form a trail and bring them back to your blog. Trailfire lets you extend your blog out on the web.
Colorcell Home
Vote for your favorite color combinations on this interesting social web.
Life With Alacrity: Collective Choice: Rating Systems
An excellent article discussing the pro’s and con’s of different rating systems.
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