sameer iyengar

Check out @popularnow on Twitter.

Its a mashup I wrote that tries to find interesting news based on Google Search Trends. It uses Yahoo! BOSS and the Twitter API and runs on Google App Engine.

Few things I learned:

• App Engine makes writing simple apps and rapid prototyping a breeze.
• Yahoo’s APIs are incredibly developer-friendly.
• Twitter spam-bots will find you even before you tell anyone about your account.

So far, it’s found some interesting articles and a whole lot of Tiger Woods gossip.   I guess that’s the sad reality of what people have been searching for over the past week.  Even cooler, it somehow got two retweets.

Follow it and let me know what you think…

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