Location awareness and Twitter
Posted by Paul Vincent
Thanks to TIBCO’s Patrick Sapinski for some news on a CEP-driven Twitter application (albeit not public yet) that used location awareness principles to “tweet” people depending on where they were (e.g. passing a certain location). The Twitter side of the story was apparently the easy part. Patrick writes:
“We did not do any Java coding to accomplish this. We just used the TIBCO BusinessWorks HTTP activity to send tweets to Twitter. It was pretty easy once I configured the messages, URL, etc.”
Of course, for corporate applications / private tweets there are also services like Tibbr, which I signed up for this week… meanwhile I’m happy sticking with iGoogle to monitor “the real thing” via RSS feeds!
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Complex Event Processing (CEP) | 10 March 2010 |
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By Opher Etzion, March 10, 2010 @ 21:36
Hi Paul. Twitter is indeed becoming one of the most common channels for event producers. I have described a cool application based on Twitter developed in the IBM Hursley Lab that traces the location of the Hursley bus. See: http://epthinking.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-epia-chapter-about-event-consumers.html
By Paul Vincent, March 11, 2010 @ 15:08
Hi Opher - I’d forgotten you’d mentioned that, thanks. Looks like Hursley is using Twitter as an event bus for useful info not just gossip! Presumably the next thing is time-bounded (or conditional) subscriptions to do at-source (ie Twitter server) filtering - eg I’m only interested in the bus location on the run up to my travel times…
Cheers