Twitter Trends + Google ImageSearch AJAX API = Mashup
- Tim Brockman
- @ 12:37 pm
Oh Twitter trends, a window to a world where currently James Brond, Harry Potter and Michael Jackson fight to be the mind pollution de jour. What could make such an amazing thing better? Pictures. Time for some information visualization work, a little bit of AJAX, and a good excuse to get some JavaScript DOM exercise.
So here are a couple variations on the same simple thing. The first uses the top 4 Google ImageSearch results as a background for the top 10 current Twitter Trends and lays them out in a clean grid. The second does the same but uses a random Google ImageSearch result for each Twitter trend.
As in previous ramblings about some JSON stuff, (see the posts Twitter Trends with PHP cURL & JSON and PHP cURLing, JSON, & Google Image Search results) I'll restate how much I love mashuping. This stuff is pretty simple and there is much further one could take the idea. If you need help the reference tables @ w3schools are nice as are the tutorials.
This is an old Google Image Search ‘hack’ I updated to work with Google’s AJAX search API and PHP using cURL and JSON… For creative fun I’ve been working on some content sensitive visual mish-mash, and wanted to post some quick code in hopes others will do something creative with it. Back in the day, …continue reading…
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