For some, it’s useful to go to OneRiot to search for links being tweeted or dugg in real-time. But for a lot of people it’s better if the sites and services they’re already using have the functionality built-in. That’s OneRiot’s intention in opening up its API to the public today.
The site’s API, which has been in use with selected partners for several weeks, will give third-party developers a chance to bake the results right into their sites or apps. One of the big developers that has already been using it is Microsoft, which has a version of its web browser, IE 8, with OneRiot built-in.
Another partner that has been using the API is the desktop social messaging client Nambu. You can imagine that a lot of the clients that offer Twitter functionality may also want to offer real-time link search capabilities, which OneRiot’s API will be perfect for.
Here are four of the main options that OneRiot will offer with the API:
- Realtime Search Results – a realtime stream of related web pages and videos that the social web is buzzing about right now for any search query.
PulseRank Search Results – a feed of search results ordered by relevance using OneRiot’s PulseRank algorithm, PageRank for the realtime web.
OneRiot Trending Topics – a feed of emerging topics heating up across the web right now.
Simple Web Search Interface – allowing developers to provide innovative search integration with minimal investment.
OneRiot CEO, Kimbal Musk, will be participating in our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp this Friday.
Wonder about the origins of their name – is it a play on the old Texas Ranger slogan, “One Riot, One Ranger?”
This is what liberal arts majors think about on a tech site….:)
Sheila – i can answer that (I’m the GM at OneRiot). We view the “Riot” as the realtime firehose of activity on the social web – the links people share on twitter, digg, other social services, not to mention our own panel. Meanwhile the “One” is the one place to organize it all. Hence OneRiot. Plus, we hope, it’s pretty rememberable!
Hi Tobias,
Access to raw information like this is great. My question though is how to translate the flow into usable data for someone like myself who sells banner stands and large format printing.
Thanks, Tobias – I saw on your About page that your folks were mostly from Colorado, not Texas, but thought I’d ask anyway.
oneriot is a horrible name for a company.
“mylocator”, on the other hand, is the perfect name. Right?
Good search results in the two seconds I checked it out. Do you guys support Friendfeed as well despite it’s the Syphilis of the Web?
I have read alot about OneRiot I think its now time to get hands on and see how I or others around me can benefit from this.
Well I searched for iPhone apps and http://www.appgiveaway.com came up at the top so I am happy
Nice job, OneRiot! We’ve been using their API for months now to enable users to insert real-time results on the Google/Yahoo!/Bing SERP, and it works great.
Wow, great news for developers. I can’t wait to put my hands on it.
Nice!
BTW, Nambu > Tweetie! I’m glad MG uses it too.
With Microsoft as a partner, nothing can go wrong right??? I certainly believe that OneRiot may be possibly offering the most feature complete and usable realtime web solutions, I am wondering if perhaps Google may look at acquiring and integrating this solution to become a better realtime search engine?!?!
I see the majority of the team who runs this web service all preside from Boulder, which I believe gives them a pretty good chance of doing well!
A real-time search interface does not automagically create a scalable real-time search engine. It would be a lot more interesting if there was evidence that OneRiot had addressed the computer science issues that prevent real-time search from scaling and generalizing to more interesting applications.
Google currently sucks at real-time search for complex technical reasons, otherwise they would already have it. Any startup that is not doing interesting computer science in this sector likely will not interest them too much.
Andrew, you are totally correct – the science and the scaling are both critical to success. If you are interested, check out this blog post to dive a little deeper into how we do those things: http://blog.one...e-search-engine would love you feedback. Tobias @ OneRiot
Interesting, you do not solve the problem per se, you keep it manageable by tacitly and aggressively pruning the data set at several levels and keeping the scope as simple as possible. In a lot of ways that is skimming off the low-hanging cream (to mix metaphors) that will grab early market. That said, it is not a generalized platform (and all the fancy computer science that entails) which creates the risk of being eclipsed by someone that does create a more generalized, scalable solution.
In any case, I expect there to be a lot of action in this space.
I don’t really know much about the competitors in this space, but as a computer scientist, I know that this statement makes me run for cover: “it is not a generalized platform (and all the fancy computer science that entails) which creates the risk of being eclipsed by someone that does create a more generalized, scalable solution.”
Anyone who attempts to create a generalized, scalable solution BEFORE creating a solution that works at small scales and provides the right functionality is bound to fail. Not to sound cliche, but:
“Make it work.
Make it right.
Make it fast.”
http://www.c2.c...ureOptimization
You sound like the kind of guy who comes on a project, makes everyone realize how “unscalable” their “solution” is, and then spends 2 years advising them “optimize the solution”, thus making it impossible for anyone to suggest that maybe it’s the wrong solution, or the wrong problem altogether.
Congrats guys…
Spinn3r will be at the Real Time Stream Crunchup tomorrow so if anyone wants to talk please feel free to ping me…..
Kevin
Open API is a great idea.
OneRiot uses several APIs to pull some of those results themselves from Twitter and others. My experience with T&C of similar APIs is that they do not allow repackaging them for another API for third parties. Am I missing something?
My guess is users prefer it the other way around – they have a set of websites (mostly blogs) they follow, and they want to know which stories are worth the 3 minutes read.
Also, it’s very common for very hot stories to be covered by multiple sources (for example, Google’s annoncement of the Chrome OS, a possbile Microsoft killer), and users want to know which blog ( or any other webstie) provides the most interesting insight into the story.
AAfter Search is offering real-time results from Twitter for months now, and it also offer cookie free high privacy search, and they also do not use any Javascript based ad [like absence].
Tony Smith
it is great news for every community