Tickery is a rather awesome application of FluidDB that lets you explore Twitter in a number of ways. I mentioned previously in post on recent TunkRank improvements that TunkRank scores would soon be integrated with Tickery, and thanks to Terry Jones and his crew, the time is now! Full disclosure: I’m a fan of FluidDB. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
TunkRank, Meet Tickery
Posted: 5 May 2010 in UncategorizedTags: fluiddb, tickery, tunkrank, twitter
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TunkRank Improvements
Posted: 17 February 2010 in UncategorizedTags: influence ranking, merb, mysql, postgresql, rails, redis, resque, ruby, tunkrank, twitter
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a number of improvements to TunkRank that I will be rolling out tonight. First, I’ve secured a server to host it on, rather than my old Dell laptop, so reliability should improve and TunkRank is no longer a slave to dynamic DNS problems. Also, my cable [...]
Learning Scala
Posted: 11 July 2009 in UncategorizedTags: books, friends, programming languages, ruby, scala, twitter
Two weeks ago, I picked up my copy of Programming in Scala, which had been languishing on my shelf for months. I pre-purchased it since I went to high school with one of the authors (Lex Spoon). His mother, incidentally, was also my favorite math teacher. When I started my new job back in September [...]
Alternative Grad School
Posted: 9 June 2009 in UncategorizedTags: grad school, inspiration, life choices, music, seth godin, twitter
Image via CrunchBase Seth Godin suggests that all these unemployed college grads put themselves to good purpose this year and spend some time really enriching themselves (ht to @johndcook for the link). The laundry list of to-do items includes: Spend twenty hours a week running a project for a non-profit. Teach yourself Java, HTML, Flash, [...]
Revised Twitter Policy
Posted: 25 April 2009 in UncategorizedTags: adobe air, attention, daniel tunkelang, iphone, iphone apps, nambu, ponzi, twalala, tweetdeck, tweetie, twitter, twitter policy
Image via CrunchBase My previous twitter policy stated that I would follow anyone who follows me. That has worked well for me over the past few months, since I use Twalala to filter my tweets down to a workable level. People like Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki) approve of this follow-back practice, while others like Daniel Tunkelang [...]
@mrcrawly: Legway: A Pedal-Powered Steampunk Segway: http://bit.ly/fcQ0D (via @roundtrip) Me: @mrcrawly I wish i could say i’d like to see that kid try to ride it, but he really needs a helmet first.. :) @cyc_ai: @ealdent Riding is a type of sexual intercourse. http://bit.ly/VCTgg Me: RT @cyc_ai Riding is a type of sexual intercourse. http://bit.ly/VCTgg [...]
Cyc Randomness
Posted: 5 April 2009 in UncategorizedTags: artificial intelligence, bots, cyc, cyc_ai bot, insanity, knowledge engineering, random, twitter
The Cyc project has been going on for some 15 years. I first heard of it when I took a class on Artificial Intelligence (surprise!). People in the knowledge engineering community that I have had the chance to talk to seem to have the opinion that the Cyc project is good intentioned, and going about [...]
First steps towards an API for TunkRank
Posted: 4 April 2009 in UncategorizedTags: api, in treatment, influence, merb, restful, tunkrank, twitter
Earlier today, I was checking out the suggested connections provided by re-searchr (by James Ostheimer, @jostheim). A discussion arose around ranking suggested users and potentially using a measure like TunkRank as a part of that ranking. The prospect of James having to reimplement TunkRank encouraged me to implement a part of the TunkRank API I [...]
Million dollar startup idea
Posted: 1 April 2009 in UncategorizedTags: million dollar ideas, startups, twitter
Guaranteed to make you rich*: Create a bevy of stupidly obvious twitter bots Follow random users Make a catalog of those who follow you back Sell the catalog to people who want to build their followers quickly * No warranty given or implied. Use at your own risk. May cause you to become a douchebag.
