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Just launched this Twitter/OpenCalais mashup for IL special election
It was a lot of fun putting them together. I'm pulling links out of the tweets and running OpenCalais over the text in the articles. Then I count the "Topics" to catch trends and pull out quotes.
- pclark 18y agodid you make this? how did you find OpenCalais? What do you use it for?
- collint 18y agoYes I made this. I don't remember quite how I found OpenCalais. I found it almost a year ago. When somebody posts a relevant tweet with a link in it, I run the text on the other side of the link through Calais to pull out quotes. Some Tweets have a "Preview Article" link that expands the tweet to show those quotes. I'm also using Calais to catch onto trending topics.
- pclark 18y agoso you use Calais to extract quotes from documents?
- brandnewlow 18y agoI believe Calais is pulling the quotes and keywords from the documents.
- collint 18y agoYes this is correct.
- brandnewlow 18y agoCollin and I found eachother here on Hacker News. I wanted to create a Twitter buzz tracker for the special IL election to replace Rahm Emmanuel in Congress. Let us know what you think.
- sachinag 18y agoThis is brilliant. I sent it to my friend who's running one of the campaigns. (No, I'm not telling you which one.)
- brandnewlow 18y agoHa. I didn't tell you about this one did I? Collin deserves all praise and kudos. He exceeded and improved on my spec at least 5 times.
- sachinag 18y agoYou didn't, you magnificant bastard. But you covered my ranting on Sunday; I can't complain.