Very Happening
by Murray Woodman on Jan.01, 2003, under Play
veryhappening.com is personal project which glues together web services from different sources. Primarily, veryhappening.com uses Google to rate various things (people, bands, companies, characters, shows, etc) by recording the number of “hits” a thing receives. Who do you think the most popular person is? Amazon web services are used to provide recommendations for each thing and category. I have also hooked into the Technorati API to provide users with info on the latest chatterings in the blog world. Finally, RSS feeds from the Yahoo Buzz are used to identify which things are currently buzzing in the internet world. I am currently working on adding racial, national, gender and birthdate (star sign) metadata to the top people so that I can break down the results for people according to these dimensions. Early results indicate that the net is white, male, American and aged about 50 
Update: Currently the site isn’t working because WebHost4Life decided to remove a URL Redirect ISAPI filter I had installed. They told me I had to upgrade to dedicated hosting in order to get it back! Hang that. That made me move all my other sites off their hosting platform over to Linux and Apache where I get mod rewrite. I’m now with WestHost. I’ll fix up the ASP code one of these days and get it working… maybe.
