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Looks neat.. Mind throwing some light on the backend and technologies (db, framework) you used? I must say that it is really well designed.

You bet. The stack is something like this (in no particular order): Django Postgres Memcached RabbitMQ Gunicorn Supervisord Celery Nginx Solr Ec2/EBS

I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff...but, that's most of it.