Michael Wales

What started as just an exercise in toying with a vast array of APIs has officially launched as of last night, KnowYourTrend.com. As I combined the various APIs together, into a single comprehensive collection of information on a subject, I actually started to find the information useful.

Looking over sites like Google Trends or Twitter Search I often find myself wondering, “What is X, and why is it trending?” For example, Gary Mason is currently trending on Twitter – I have no clue who this is or why they are trending. KnowYourTrend quickly puts all of this information on the front page and you quickly learn he was a pretty big-deal British boxer that recently passed away.

There’s still a lot of work to be done for sure: bringing in more APIs (YouTube and Amazon are currently on the priority list); relating pages to one another (you could quickly check out why Orlando Bloom is trending, discover his wife Miranda Kerr just went into labor and go check out her page as well); among various other ideas.

Overall, it’s been a fun little diversion from my main project right now, AfterMil, that (runs and looks at repository) only took 48 hours to turn around from concept to deployment.