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"programming":18,"social":13,"blogs":13,"search":12,"visualization":8,"analysis":8}
}]
to retrieve them from your own service. The service rate-limits to 1,000 calls a day, but from
talking to BackType, it seems
they're keen to help if you want higher usage
.
The information is usually used to display related conversations in a web interface, but, with a
bit of imagination, you could use it to identify users related to a particular topic or gauge the
popularity of a page instead:
curl "http://api.backtype.com/connect.json?\
url=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/30/if-bitly-is-worth-8-million-tinyurl-is\
-worth-at-least-46-million/&key=0cd9bd64b6dc4e4186b9"
{"startindex":1,"itemsperpage":25,"next_page":2,"comments":[{"comment":
{"id":"000032ca7e8b26f9d79b549cb451b518",
"url":"http:\/\/blog.saush.com\/2009\/04\/13\/
clone-tinyurl-in-40-lines-of-ruby-code\/#comment-1476",
"content":"...",
"date":"2010-12-06 17:10:53"},
"blog":{"id":13002,
"url":"http:\/\/blog.saush.com\/","title":"saush.com"},
"post":{"url":"http:\/\/blog.saush.com\/2009\/04\/13\/
clone-tinyurl-in-40-lines-of-ruby-code\/",
"title":"Clone TinyURL in 40 lines of Ruby code"},
"author":{"name":"Cpchhukout",
"url":"http:\/\/newwave.hoha.ru\/maxim_axenov?ref=wmbasta"},
...
If you're displaying a lot of URLs to your users, it can be handy to give them visual cues.
This simple web service gives you an easy way to do that by embedding HTML images of site
favicons:
<img src="http://pagepeeker.com/f/wikipedia.org" border="0" width="16px"
height="16px">
People by Email
These services let you ind information about users on their systems using an email address as a
search term. Since it's common to have email addresses for your own users, it's often possible to
