[source language="html"]
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
[/source]

Next we’re going to load the data from Twitter asynchronously. The following will do that:

[source language="javascript"]
<script type="text/javascript">
//Your twitter name
var twitter_name = "mikeluby";
//Number of tweets you want to get back
var twitter_count = 6;
//Callback function name
var callback_name = "tweet_callback";
//Twitter search url
var twitter_search = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline";
//Return type (json or xml)
var return_type = "json";
//Adds script tags to the head/body tag
( function() {
var ts = document.createElement(‘script’);
ts.type = ‘text/javascript’;
ts.async = true;
ts.src = twitter_search + "." + return_type + "?screen_name=" + twitter_name + "&count=" + twitter_count + "&callback=" + callback_name;
( document.getElementsByTagName( ‘head’ )[ 0 ] || document.getElementsByTagName( ‘body’ )[ 0 ] ).appendChild( ts );
} )();
</script>
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Ok you got the data now what? Let’s parse it and display it!

[source language="javascript"]<script type="text/javascript">
//Call back function
function tweet_callback( data ) {
//Loop through the data from twitter
$.each( data, function( i, tweet ) {
//Make sure the text isn’t undefined
if( tweet.text != undefined ) {
//Lets do some regex magic to replace urls, hashtags, and usernames
var text = tweet.text.toString().replace( /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig, ‘<a href="$1">$1</a>’ ).replace( /(^|\s)@(\w+)/, ‘<a href="http://www.twitter.com/$2">@$2</a>’ ).replace( /[#]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+/ig, function(t) { var tag = t.replace("#","%23"); return t.link("http://search.twitter.com/search?q="+tag); } );
//Lets append each tweet to a ul with the id of tweet_container
$( "#tweet_container" ).append( "<li>" + text + "</li>");
}
} );
}</script>[/source]

There you go! The only limitation is if a user decides to visit the page (and make the twitter api calls) more than 100 times per hour.

For those who don’t know how to do a ul tag with an id:

[source language="html"]<ul id="tweet_container"></ul>[/source]

Enjoy!

OK lets get started, what you’ll want to do first is to create a simple filter, I’ll be using the twitter-search publisher for this. So lets say you wanted to get all of the tweets that have the keywords “@mikeluby”, “mike luby”, and “mikeluby.com”. You would start by creating the filter, lets name it “aboutMikeLuby” next you’ll want to put the URL to your callback (lets use http://example.com/gnip_input.php). Finally at the bottom you’ll enter the keywords into the keyword input. This input is comma separated and will simulate an OR conditionals to the twitter search api. Now there is away to create these filters via code, I’ll get into this at a later date. When the activities are returned they are grouped into buckets, there is a new bucket every minute.

At this point you’ll want to make sure you have the Gnip PHP Convenience Library downloaded. (Get it here) In gnip_input.php (the callback when gnip “pushes” data to your service) you’ll have the following:

[sourcecode language="php"]

//This file is called every time Gnip has activities to publish to the current bucket.

include_once( "Gnip.php" );

$time = time(); //Get current time

$gnip = new Services_Gnip( $gnip_username, $gnip_password ); //Create gnip Object

$filter = $gnip->getFilter( "twitter-search", "aboutMikeLuby" ); //Create filter object

$results = $gnip->getFilterActivities( "twitter-search", $filter, $time ); //This returns a Services_Gnip Object of the activites in the specified bucket.

print_r( $results );

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There you go, it’s pretty straight forward. Don’t forget to check out Gnip’s documentation.

Below I’ll be sharing the event live here and also via my twitter. Feel free to refresh the page as much as you would like It’ll be updated as much as possible through out the evening.

Update: The videos are now online http://ignitephoenix.blip.tv/ go check them all out.

Live Blogging:
View the live feed at http://ignite-phoenix.org/live/

5:14 – I arrived at TCA the event doesn’t start until 6

More after the fold…

5:34 – great view of Tempe town lake

6:03 – it’s starting to fill up. Let’s get this show on the road.

6:24 – here we go. Tempe tech counselor follows the “the wireless doesn’t work” guy

6:29 – what is ignite presentation

6:35 – first presentation “toilet training – a study of connectivity in history”. Interesting connection between toilets and science.

6:41 – presentation 2: “web comics: off the newsprint onto the Internet”. A great history of web comics and a lot of great examples. I gotta look up Garfield minus Garfield

6:46 – presentation 3 “how open source bio fuels will change phoenix and the world” great benefits economically and environmentally. AZ is a big place for Algae bio fuels. http://desertbiofuels.org/

6:52 – presentation 4 “floating bones 102: rules for loosely-coupled structures”

- presentation 5 “nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs”. Besides the long title it’s about how people are suckered into paying more and social norms. Are things overvalued? People are easily distracted. The power of price, just because it costs more doesn’t mean it’s better.

7:02 – presentation 6 “journalism’s implosion: what’s next” great presentation on what’s next for media 3.0 and how the news will change in the future. Collaborators becoming contributors. Journalism innovation is inexpensive.

7:09 – presentation 7 “the eyes have it: eyes as a window to cognition”

7:13 – presentation 8 “the art of enjoying food”. Oh I’m hungry. Learn da new foods skillz d00d.

7:18 – presentation 9 “big distance”. Distance in perspective. From 4.2 light years to the closest star to the size of DNA.

7:23 – break

8:00 – and we’re back and a word from the sponsor.

Ugh damn wordpress iPhone app crashes and I lose what I wrote!

After event update: So unfortunately I lost a couple of presentations worth of blog post because the WordPress iPhone application crashed mid image upload, I decided it was too late to salvage the rest of the presentations. But I’m sure they will haven all of them posted on the website some time.Other than that the rest of the event was pretty amazing. Everyone who presented did a great job, learned a lot of stuff! I can’t wait for the next Ignite Phoenix June 9th, it’ll definitely be in a larger venue and just as exciting.  So thanks to the 1 or 2 of you who followed the event live on here and sorry about the second half, you should have been there in person.

Below the fold I’m going to paste a code snippet that will set you on your way.

FBML for comment box:

[sourcecode language="html"]

[/sourcecode]

Get the Number of comments:

[sourcecode language="php"]

require_once( “FBAPI/CLIENT/LOCATION/facebook.php” );
$appapikey = ‘FB_API_KEY’;
$appsecret = ‘FB_SECRET’;
$facebook = new Facebook( $appapikey, $appsecret );
$comments = count( $facebook->api_client->call_method( “facebook.comments.get”, array( “xid” => “mikeluby_$post_id” ) ) );

[/sourcecode]

[sourcecode language='jscript']
curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d status=”MESSAGE” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml | grep truncated
[/sourcecode]

[sourcecode language='jscript']
/**
* Converts seconds to minutes and seconds
* @param number Number of seconds
* @return String of minutes and seconds (00:00)
*/
public function convertTime( number:Number ):String {
number = Math.abs( number );
var val:Array = new Array( 5 );
val[ 0 ] = Math.floor( number / 86400 / 7 ); //weeks
val[ 1 ] = Math.floor( number / 86400 % 7 );//days
val[ 2 ] = Math.floor( number / 3600 % 24 );//hours
val[ 3 ] = Math.floor( number / 60 % 60 );//mins
val[ 4 ] = Math.floor( number % 60 );//secs
var stopage:Boolean = false;
var cutIndex:Number = -1;
for(var i:Number = 0; i < val.length; i++ ) {
if( val[ i ] < 10 )
val[ i ] = “0″ + val[ i ];
if( val[ i ] == “00″ && i < ( val.length – 2 ) && !stopage ) {
cutIndex = i;
} else {
stopage = true;
}
}
val.splice( 0, cutIndex + 1 );
return val.join( “:” );
}
[/sourcecode]

[sourcecode language='php']< ?php
//tinyURL function, needs url to be passed to tinyrul
function tinyURL( $url ) {
//Initializes a new session and return a cURL handle
$curl = curl_init( );
//Sets an option on the given cURL session handle.
//request url
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=" . urlencode( $url ) );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 ); //return transfer
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10 ); // connection timeout
//Execute the given cURL session.
$tiny = curl_exec( $curl );
//Closes a cURL session and frees all resources. The cURL handle, $curl , is also deleted.
curl_close( $curl );
//return result from curl
return( $tiny );
}

echo tinyURL( "http://strategicv.com/" ); //echos: http://tinyurl.com/3r4j8c
?>[/sourcecode]

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