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Category: APIs Category
Posted by
DuganWednesday, April 06, 2011
Categories:
APIs,
release
One of our senior platform engineers, Mike Dugan, took some time to build out a sample app using our
CreateExternalActivityFeed API (see blog entry
here). The app is designed to synch user's twitter feeds into our activity feed engine. These in turn drive points. A good sample use case would be to tweak the program to search for specific hash tags. So if you're having a conference or want to track a specific trend, you could give points to users tweeting about your cause.
This sample app comes complete with 5 short videos on how he did it as well as the
sample code he wrote (written in Python). We decided to take advantage of the Google App Engine to host this just to prove how quickly, easily, and cheaply an organization could utilize our framework. Mike also took the time to record 5 short training videos on how it works and how to use the APIs. Those videos can be found
here.
Give it a whirl and let us know what you think!
