This is an update to our Twitter+Election ‘08 mashup that was over at Setfive Election HQ

Well as everyone saw last Tuesday night, Obama won the election by a pretty significant margin and has all ready taken steps to announce his transition agenda.

Anyway, at the end of our run, we captured 11021 tweets with the breakdown being 2501 for McCain and 8520 for Obama. Since we had been generating maps all day we decided to take snapshots at 5 minute intervals so that we could watch the progression of the map. The timelapse map is embedded below:

We hope everyone had a good election experiance - we had a lot of fun building this mashup. Now to find the next big thing…

I was playing around with Microsoft’s Live search the other day and found out that it can actually solve higher order quadratics! http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=x^3%2B4*x%3D25&go=&form=QBRE

Anyway, that’s cool and all but I really wanted it to make graphs when I searched for functions. I poked around a little but it doesn’t look like there is any way to plug stuff like that into Live! Luckily for me, Wikia Search is testing / developing their widget framework - codename WISE.

I threw together this WISE widget - http://fp029.sjc.wikia-inc.com/search/search.html#f(x)=x^3+3*x+5

The widget is really just a front end to GNU Plot - http://www.gnuplot.info/

A JS front end is here http://code.setfive.com/gnuplot/bin/ui.html