20 May

TweetyPants Video

Posted by matt in openamplify, querypath, screencast, twitter

Here's a screencast walk-through of the TweetyPants intelligence analyzer.

Enter a user's screen name and TweetyPants does an analysis of recent tweets by that user. It then rates the user's style, smarts, and shizzle. No, it doesn't do anything useful.

28 Apr

QueryPath News

Posted by matt in drupal, openamplify, php, querypath, screencast

This week is "QueryPath week".
dw
IBM developerWorks has published Get to know the QueryPath PHP library: A fast, easy way to work with XML and HTML. The article walks discusses the design of the QueryPath library, and walks through a simple Twitter search application.
OpenAmplify
The folks at OpenAmplify have started tweeting about my screencast using QueryPath with OpenAmplify. I was gonna save the screencast for CMS Expo, but here it is. (If you are coming to CMS Expo, I might let you play with it.)

This short screencast presents a quick module I put together that uses QueryPath to retrieve and process web service information. The cornerstone of the application is the OpenAmplify web service, which provides lexical analysis of a text, returning information that can be used, well, to build stuff like this.