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RankWell: Markov Chain Generation of Yelp Restaurant Reviews
a project by ericp
Ever left a restaurant wanting to write a review, but thinking it wasn't worth the trouble to tap out all those words on your phone -- you just want to give the place your n stars and provide a few words of praise or condemnation? If only you could press a button to generate a plausible review. If this project happens, you will. We'll use the Yelp API to grab as many reviews of certain types of restaurants as the terms of service allow (I assume "Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index any portion of the Site or any Site Content;" doesn't apply to API users -- otherwise it wouldn't be much of an API).
Build an online RSS reader
a project by ericp
I'd like to see a web-based desktop RSS reader with a simple 3-pane interface like SharpReader's but it runs in Firefox and uses Firefox shared storage to store the user's usage data on their local machines, not on a server. Technology:
TwitterKondo - keep your tweet stream clean and sparking joy
a project by ericp
Thinking about extending the typical Twitter app that let's a user bulk-delete their tweets (with a limit of 3200 each time). The main extension is to allow subscribers to this service to add a hashtag to their tweets that will put a time-to-delete
Looking for projects around:
Nothing at the moment
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