Tag: FriendFeed
Google ready to launch a Microblogging Search Engine
by flotruglio on mar.07, 2010, under Developers
Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter. Since it’s very easy to post updates and the posts are usually very short, micro-blogging services are great for live blogging, posting real-time information about an event.
Twitter’s search engine has two important drawbacks: it’s limited to Twitter and it sorts the results by date. While there are other search engines like Tweefind that try to sort Twitter posts by relevancy and search engines like Twingly that index multiple microblogging sites, none of them does a great job. (continue reading…)
FriendFeed & Google Maps == FriendMap
by flotruglio on gen.19, 2010, under Tutorial
or in other words ..“How to Create a Smart WebApplication to see Geo Infos of Ff posts”
This tutorial born as a little developers guide to integrate the Google Apis with the FriendFeed Apis.First of all you need two authorization key, one for friendFeed (https://friendfeed.com/account/login?next=%2Fapi%2Fregister) and the other one for the google Maps (http://code.google.com/intl/it-IT/apis/maps/signup.html).In this tutorial I don’t want to speak about the google widget and other possible integration of this kind of tools, but I simply want to explain the main things that you need to know to create this kind of tools…What do you need else?Now we have the keys to use the APIs and we need to develop our application..but first we need to know the basics APIs model of friendfeed.
