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I've been accepted to Google Summer of Code

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I'm very excited to announce that I've been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. I will be writing memetracking software that will enable anyone to set up a Google News or Techmeme like site on any topic. Do you want to develop a news site following economic news? You can with my software. Do you want a site that tracks the latest Facebook Application development news? You can do that with my software. Read my full application for more about what the memetracker will do.

A big thanks to those who will be helping me write this software. First to Google who sponsors the Summer of Code program. Then to my mentors from the Drupal community (Bill Fitzgerald, Fabiano Sant'Ana, and Scott Hadfield). Then the BYU Professors who've volunteered to help me (Christophe Giraud-Carrier and Dan Ventura) and Ph.D student Matt Smith.

It's going to be a great summer! I'll be posting updates on this blog as summer rolls on.

Submitted by Kyle Mathews on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 03:59
Knight News Challenge application to improve Memetracker and (not verified) Says:
Sun, 11/02/2008 - 06:47

[...] and Content Recommendation Engine modules to production ready status. Memetracker, is of course, the module I wrote this past summer as part [...]

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Anonymous Says:
Wed, 05/28/2008 - 05:18

cool, and congrats!
looking forward to this project... you can hit me up if you need help. drupal [.at.] rex [.dot.] fm

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My blog is now running on Drupal | Kyle Mathews :: Dreams Wi (not verified) Says:
Sat, 05/17/2008 - 19:33

[...] my blog from Wordpress to Drupal. I figured that since I build all my sites using Drupal and I'm building a memetracker module for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code, I should switch my personal website/blog to Drupal. Wordpress is a great blogging platform but I'm [...]

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Triz (not verified) Says:
Thu, 05/01/2008 - 06:40

Thanks for your answer Kyle :).

I will often come back on your blog to see how this php script is built :-)...

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Kyle Mathews (not verified) Says:
Wed, 04/30/2008 - 02:13

As far as I've been able to tell -- there isn't any other opensource memetrackers that are the equivalent of techmeme or google news. There has been some smaller attempts at coding one but nothing that went beyond the experimentation stage.

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Triz (not verified) Says:
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 21:20

Wow, that would be very great to have an open source memetracker script :). Is there already another script like this or will it be the first one ?

Good luck !

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