Posts Tagged ‘search api

Advertise here with BSA This is a guest post by Chico Charlesworth. He has created a geographic visualisation with the help of his BBC colleague, Tom Martin. The visualisation mashes up location-aware social data to visually capture people’s experiences and reactions to the royal wedding. It was built in three days and is showcased as [...]

HP‘s Social Computing Research Group has released the results of a new study that dives into the anatomy of Twitter’s Trending Topics. For its research, HP analyzed 16.32 million tweets on 3,361 different trending topics between September and October 2010. To get its data, it queried Twitter’s search API every 20 minutes. HP discovered that [...]

Yahoo has announced new details about its BOSS Search API, including pricing updates. The company says developers will pay $0.80 per 1,000 searches for unlimited service. Yahoo offered more details in its search blog. “ A more limited web results service with a lower price point will also be available for developers who can utilize [...]

In today’s tutorial, we’re going to mix a handful of technologies. First, we’ll review how to implement a simple form of text file caching with PHP. To illustrate this technique, we’ll use the wonderful YQL to query Twitter’s search API for a list of tweets which contain the string, “nettuts.” Finally, we’ll experiment with PHP’s [...]

Just this week, the jQuery team announced that Microsoft’s templating plugin (along with a couple others) is now being officially supported. What this means is that the plugin will now be maintained and updated directly by the core team. In this video tutorial, we’ll review the essentials of the plugin, and why it’s so awesome. [...]


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