What makes Zeitgeist tick
Post categories: innovation
| 10:51 UK time, Wednesday, 29 September 2010
In July I pointed you to a prototype being developed by Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Research and Development: "Zeitgeist".
Now comes a follow up post from Sean O'Halpin: "What Makes Zeitgeist Tick"
Today we're publishing the full source code of this system under the GNU GPLv3 licence on github at ...The system consists of an interface to the which passes tweets to a processing pipeline. The pipeline finds and extracts links to the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú, resolving shortened and redirected urls... Finally, there's a web interface to present the results to end users, which was written using the well-tested software stack of Sinatra, Thin and nginx, all fronted by a Squid proxy. The Zeitgeist database is mysql, the modelling done using Datamapper.
There's lots more detail and a diagram at the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Research and Development blog.
Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Online.
