Archive for April, 2008

Positive comments about Twist on Delicious

by dbasch — 2 Comments »

Twist got a lot of traffic today, as it made it to the top of del.icio.us/popular. Here are very positive comments from del.icio.us users. It’s fun to look at the logs and see what people are comparing. Also, moving it to Amazon EC2 was a good idea as the traffic is not a problem at […]

Twist - See trends on twitter

by dbasch — 3 Comments »

We just released a fun tool called Twist. If you are familiar with Google Trends, it should be obvious what it does. It allows you to track trends on Twitter over the past week, with a granularity of a couple of hours. While testing the tool we saw spikes in the charts whenever an interesting […]

Wordpress.com search running on Hounder

by dbasch — 7 Comments »

Wordpress just launched a blog search service for the almost 3M blogs they host on the site. It’s powered by Hounder, the open-source search engine we have been developing at Flaptor over the past few years. We’ve been working on this for a few months so it’s great to see it live! It’s been […]