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(SearchMe?) Coverflow results, Django backend, Yahoo API, 45 minutes.

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That is pretty awesome for 45 minutes. Although any search other than the first one didn't return pictures.

apparently got rate limited by websnappr with the traffic. cached requests seem to work.. 'paris hilton' seemed to be a popular request. heh.

Very cool. Could launch that into a full blown social networking site and many people would be happy with it.

i actually think the whole concept is dumb. just spent 45 minutes doing it to prove a point. too bad websnappr is throttling requests for the preview images.

Oh come on, you know that is an iPhone app waiting to happen. Coverflow search of the web on your iPhone! That's something people will want.

In case anyone wants a simple way to take screenshots of webpages (on Ubuntu):

    aptitude install xvfb xwd firefox netpbm

    Xvfb :4 -screen 0 1024x1024x24 &
    sleep 1
    firefox --display=:4.0 -width 1024 -height 1024 &
    sleep 10
    firefox -remote "openURL(http://news.ycombinator.com/)"
    sleep 5
    xwd -root -silent -display :4.0 | xwdtopnm | pnmcut 1 125 800 600 | pnmtojpeg > screenshot.jpg

Of course these commands can be automated in your language of choice. The only problems: firefox opens a new tab by default, so you can't close old ones; and there's no way to find out when a page is done loading.

Wow! Thats pretty cool. The website, and the fact that you pulled it off in 45 minutes. Great job earle.

This would be especially cool in an application like Google's image search. And @Readmore above... this definitely has a lot of potential as a mobile device app, and everyone knows the mobile internet is growing fast!

Gorgeous, I love it.

Yes. Cool use of Javascript. I thought it was Flash until I looked at the source

JavaScript is way more capable than people give it credit...

http://tlrobinson.net/misc/3d.html

Site down? (404)

anyone got a URL categorization database? websense perhaps?

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