Comments on: Mashing Mashups: Every Twitterer Tells A Story, Don’t They

By: raj

raj — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:26:44 +0000

qDot: 30 helens agree? You must be a “Kids in the Hall” fan, despite living in the USA.

Good luck with fwiktr.

I love Yahoo Pipes because it lets me rapidly protoype. In some cases, i’ll also never need to write custom production code.

By: qDot

qDot — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:13:23 +0000

Hi! I’ve just gotten the same idea up and running (found yours through googling “flickr twitter mashup” ’cause I figured there had to be a few people with this idea :) ), ‘cept I used python and some natural language processing. Twitter + nlp is a rather hard problem though, thanks to bad grammar, tiny sample space, and the non-existent corpus needed to train for internet speak and up to the nano-second pop culture. ^_^

Still not exactly perfect, but getting there, and a lot less blackboxy than Pipes.

http://www.30helensagree.com/fwiktr/

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By: raj

raj — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:39:31 +0000

Upon revisting the problem, I figured out how to used Henry Rollins feed to generate images from flickr. Though now I realize that what I’m saying above may not be clear. What I’m essentially doing with Yahoo Pipes is taking a Twitter feed and replacing each message item with a corresponding picture from flickr. How do I know what pic to use? I use Pipes’ content analysis module to scan each Twitter message and decide on a keyphrase, which is then used to retrieve the first flickr pic found with a tag similar to that keyphrase.

So in essence, if you pic a single Twitter feed, running the Yahoo Pipe is like producing a life in pictures for that person. Here’s Rollin’s life.
in pictures. If you don’t see anything, click “Run this pipe” a few times. Yahoo Pipes is still buggy.

By: raj

raj — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:47:42 +0000

Broc: Yahoo Pipes basically lets you take one or more web feeds and filter them using a few text-matching rules. That way, you can customize a group of feeds to only give you, say, articles that have the phrase “new media” in them. There’s more to Pipes than that, but that’s the gist of it.

By: Broc

Broc — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:30:51 +0000

i do not understand this at all
i guess ive got to go fool around with yahoo pipes and get a general sense of whats going on

By: raj

raj — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:59:15 +0000

If you try the Pipe out, don’t forget to click on the “Run this pipe” link on that page.