<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Richard JOHNSON <<a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com">nixternal@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Of course Identi.ca as well. I hate to say this, but Twitter is way better in terms of reaching people, so I tend to sling the word Twitter around quite a bit. It is kind of like that silly word Google. I google all the time, just with Bing.com. HAHA JUST KIDDING! Hey, I would like to see one of these integrated pages you are talking about. That sounds like a good idea, and I was thinking of just have a small box with recent tweets/dents. </blockquote><div> So would the focus be around the collection of tweets/dents for listing on the site ? If such a solution exists, I could see it being filled with interesting things if we can define it to list based on certain string combinations such as ubuntu+chicago, linux+chicago, <insert your favorite code language> + chicago, or others, rather than just having one person (or a few people) post to it. Of course that would be in addition to the @ messages that go to the server. Wait, I think I just explained the planet ubuntu, but in a microblog form :) Searching around, there is an API for both services, and <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> is modeling their API in similar fashion to make things easier[1]. Depending on the choice of the web site and back end, it might be fairly straight forward to write a php+mysql or any other front end + back end app that scraped the two services + any additional <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> servers a certain number of times (say twice a day or more depending on the content produced from the scrapes) to build a nice page. Here's what looks to be one example of what it could look like[2]. And there is a write up of how to build one on top of django + jQuery [3]. I don't know if that uses twitter dependent API calls, but it looks more advanced than what I forsee, so maybe it could be slimmed down. This, I guess, is more of a topic of conversation once the basic framework of the site is decided. If your sticking with static HTML+CSS, I could conceive a bash script to do the data mining and write it to a text file to be served in a pretty box :) [1] <a href="http://status.net/wiki/TwitterCompatibleAPI?source=laconica">http://status.net/wiki/TwitterCompatibleAPI?source=laconica</a> [2] <a href="http://www.phpconference.co.uk/aggregator">http://www.phpconference.co.uk/aggregator</a> [3] <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-social-twitter/">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-social-twitter/</a> -Tim Potter </div> </div>