Comments on: BOSS Developer Fuses Yahoo News With Twitter To Create TweetNews

By: Twitdom » TweetNews

Twitdom » TweetNews — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:13:11 +0000

[...] Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.TweetNews is a mashup between Yahoo! News and Twitter. It is powered by the Yahoo! BOSS. The UI is nothing to boast about, even though the search is quite functional. [Read Review on TechCrunch] [...]

By: Yodel Anecdotal » Blog Archive » Product Pulse - January 16, 2009

Yodel Anecdotal » Blog Archive » Product Pulse - January 16, 2009 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:15:15 +0000

[...] Piping hot news: What do you get when you combine Yahoo! News with Twitter? A breaking news search engine. Yahoo! engineer Vik Singh took his brainchild, Yahoo! BOSS (or Build Your Own Search Service), and put it to use to create what he calls TweetNews. It’s a clever mashup that takes stories on Yahoo! News and combines them with topics that are spiking on Twitter — a new way to find news that is both timely and important. And another great marriage of traditional and social media. Give it a whirl. More here and here. [...]

By: david koblas

david koblas — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:34:30 +0000

I’ve rebuilt the app available on a non-appengine backend with a few tweeks. It’s available here:
http://zipon.com

By: Ilya Grigorik

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:11:54 +0000

Love the app. We built a similar demo about a month ago, using our PostRank API (which includes twitter amongst many other metrics). Give it a try:

http://boss.pos...o&type=news

By: Twitter, Yahoo News mashup stitches social commentary to realtime search | socialmediainfluence.com

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:54:08 +0000

[...] service made even sweeter when clever people find ingenious ways to work the API. Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch posts a case in point; Vik Singh, a developer on Yahooo’s BOSS team, has mashed up Yahoo news with related tweets. [...]

By: coldbrew

coldbrew — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:52:14 +0000

“Create more value than you capture.” – Tim O’Reilly

By: William

William — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:37:08 +0000

Is it Open Source ? Can If that is the case can I also have the code base to twitter and to Yahoo search ?

Why extend an application (Share Crop) for a company that will give you noting back in return for your efforts. Twitter and Yahoo are not Open Source so they can cut you off at anytime.

If you are an Open Source Developer or Content creator (If you are a member of either service you are a content creator) you should not use Facebook or Twitter.

By using Facebook or Twitter you are essentially raising the value of their companies and applications. Both Facebook and Twitter are closed source content silos that do not allow you to control the content that you create. Neither Facebook or Twitter put the content creator/members at the top of their pyramids when thinking about revenue models. Each of these companies puts their Companies first above the members and communities that have given them value and money.

If you are a developer you may be able to make some money by creating applications for Facebook or Twitter ; but I do not believe that Facebook or Twitter will ever allow your application to eat into their user base or their revenue. Because they are both closed source companies that have the ability to literally cut you off by changing the code/api or by using their proprietary knowledge to build an application that you can not possibly compete with. As a coder understand that when you build and extend Facebook or Twitters propitiatory platforms that you undermine the longevity of the Open Internet.

Content owners and Developers do not help these closed source companies (Twitter and Facebook) in their goal of creating another closed source content trap that will extract hundreds of Millions on dollars from their member and developer communities and give nothing back in return.

By: james shamenski

james shamenski — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:56:45 +0000

love it!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:49:37 +0000

It’s working now. Google raised the quota limits (according to Vik’s blog).

By: TaiTran

TaiTran — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:59:23 +0000

Next step of social news?

By: Ben Barren - Confessions of a Mad Man » self determination friday.

Ben Barren - Confessions of a Mad Man » self determination friday. — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:59:53 +0000

[...] there is still so much value creation to happen, like the Yahoo employee profiled in techcrunch, who wrote 100 lines of code to create this newstwitter search engine that delivers an integrated result of where breaking news [...]

By: Ted Drake

Ted Drake — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:38:26 +0000

Vik keeps creating interesting mashups between code releases. I’m waiting for the next inspiration to hit.

By: BOSSの開発者がYahoo NewsとTwitterを融合してTweetNewsを作った

BOSSの開発者がYahoo NewsとTwitterを融合してTweetNewsを作った — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:26:56 +0000

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By: shivram

shivram — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:07:27 +0000

Another good example is the query “speech”
compare yahoo or google with this engine.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:00:12 +0000

I think that’s App Engine crapping out because it worked for me a couple minutes ago. Just wait for the Techcrunch onslaught to finish and try again. It’s pretty cool.

By: Sekhar Ravinutala

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:57:25 +0000

Hmm… Not giving me any results. E.g., try obama.

By: gilltots

gilltots — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:49:52 +0000

awesome, now give us a way to monetize BOSS already.

By: Geoserv

Geoserv — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:45:00 +0000

Unfortunately they are over their quota, great post and thanks for the heads up.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:44:12 +0000

It’s running for me now. I just tried again 5 minutes later.
I think Google temporarily bans it if the requests per second is high.

By: Joe Blo

Joe Blo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:42:04 +0000

I believe his name is SINGH not SIGH. Great journalism btw.

By: Jacob Friis Saxberg

Jacob Friis Saxberg — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:37:35 +0000

Already over quota on Google App Engine

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:37:21 +0000

Hi Jason:

I believe his last name is Singh.

Yahoo! News search does sort by relevance (which seems to take into account time). Singh was saying if you click “date” on Y! News search to get the latest results it will sort by timestamp and take a hit in relevance.

Cheers

By: Timothy Clemans

Timothy Clemans — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:37:14 +0000

Dang “This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.”