Webmeme.In – Indian Tech Blogs Aggregator

Webmeme.In - Top 2010 Buzz Words Visualization

Techmeme - Top 2010 Buzz Words Visualization

The data comes from stories posted on Webmeme.In and Techmeme in 2010. I pulled the words from the title of each post — a fairly reliable representation of what was trending. And used Wordle for the cloud visualization.

Google, Facebook and Twitter dominated the trends in both the markets. Key difference was in the mobile industry. In US 2010 mobile buzz was all around Apple, Android, iPhone and iPad; while in India 3G, Android and Nokia dominated.

Webmeme.In, an Indian technology news aggregator, is my brand new mashup built on top of Yahoo! BOSS. Its a meme, presenting you the hottest Indian tech stories that are buzzing on the web. Want to know more about a story? Just click on it and you will reach the source blog. Sidebar presents the most recent stories from Indian tech blogs. You can also search amongst the tech news right from the site. Try it now.

Most of the stories you see on Webmeme.In are from Indian blogs. At the same time, stories from the top international blogs related to Indian tech industry will also flow into Webmeme.In river. So, you will not miss if TechCrunch is talking something interesting about an Indian company.

Follow @webmeme (top stories) or @webmemeFH (Firehose: all posts) to receive new updates in twitter. You can also subscribe to the RSS feeds.

How it works?

• Data aggregation: I use YQL to aggregate and extract data from all the sources.
• Story selection/Ranking: Recent stories which are generating maximum conversation over the web are selected automatically using APIs including Y! BOSS site explorer, Google Trackbacks and the most important postrank API which tracks almost all of the social media including bookmarking sites, Twitter, Friendfeed, comments on the blog post, etc.
• Related Stories: Related stories are found through similarity calculated over several features like content, tags, links, etc and is easily accomplished using text mining methods present in BOSS Mashup framework.
• Search: Site restricted search powered by Y! BOSS.
• User Interface: YUI. Get your grids quickly through YUI Grid builder
  
• Hosting: Site runs on Google App Engine, my favorite hosting platform.

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