Just launched this Twitter/OpenCalais mashup for IL special election

[collint]

http://election.windycitizen.com/

[brandnewlow]

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.

[sachinag]

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

[brandnewlow → sachinag]

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.

[sachinag → brandnewlow]

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

[pclark]

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

[collint → pclark]

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.

[pclark → collint]

so you use Calais to extract quotes from documents?

[brandnewlow → pclark]

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

[collint → brandnewlow]

Yes this is correct.