Just launched this Twitter/OpenCalais mashup for IL special election

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It was a lot of fun putting them together. I'm pulling links out of the tweets and running OpenCalais over the text in the articles. Then I count the "Topics" to catch trends and pull out quotes.

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Collin and I found eachother here on Hacker News. I wanted to create a Twitter buzz tracker for the special IL election to replace Rahm Emmanuel in Congress. Let us know what you think.

This is brilliant. I sent it to my friend who's running one of the campaigns. (No, I'm not telling you which one.)

Ha. I didn't tell you about this one did I?

Collin deserves all praise and kudos. He exceeded and improved on my spec at least 5 times.

You didn't, you magnificant bastard. But you covered my ranting on Sunday; I can't complain.

did you make this? how did you find OpenCalais? What do you use it for?

Yes I made this. I don't remember quite how I found OpenCalais. I found it almost a year ago.

When somebody posts a relevant tweet with a link in it, I run the text on the other side of the link through Calais to pull out quotes. Some Tweets have a "Preview Article" link that expands the tweet to show those quotes.

I'm also using Calais to catch onto trending topics.

so you use Calais to extract quotes from documents?

I believe Calais is pulling the quotes and keywords from the documents.

Yes this is correct.

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