How does the Huff Post People Tracker work?

July 27, 2006 11:36 AM

How is this done? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/

I very much like the people ranker here on the Eat The Press blog; anyone got something I can use to replicate it, or is this some impressive flash / googlefu that us mere mortals wouldn't be able to replicate?

posted by fintanc to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Best answer: The first result for googling "flash 3d graph remoting" is pretty close.
posted by mathowie at 11:41 AM on July 27, 2006

at the bottom it says powered by google blog search. i clicked on that and typed in hezbollah and got 849 hits in the last week. i can't figure out where they get 2,269 from.
posted by sergeant sandwich at 11:49 AM on July 27, 2006

matt haughey, matt damon, matt dillon.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:06 PM on July 27, 2006

Here's a php library that does it.
posted by evariste at 12:22 PM on July 27, 2006

Response by poster: Administrator please hope me indeed :-)

Thanks Mathowie - would you believe I googled and googled and couldn't find anything remotely similar to that.
posted by fintanc at 1:00 PM on July 27, 2006

I think "remoting" is a key search term there. I've not seen it used as a verb.
posted by rleamon at 5:35 PM on July 27, 2006