During the hack day at Yahoo! I got a chance to play with Y! Firehose API. Using this api you can access the data generated by user actions on Yahoo! network and on third party sites from where user have connected to Yahoo!. Some of the third party sites are Twitter, Yelp, Youtube, Picasa. For ex. If I am sharing my Twitter activity on Yahoo! publicly then anybody can access your activity stream using Firehose api. Using the knowledge gained during hack day, I decided to build a little tool that will let you search through real-time Firehose stream. There is a huge amount of data on Y! network and if we search through that we can get lot of interesting information out of it. Some good examples are movie reviews, latest news, shopping deals. Try out the tool I built and let me know what you think? I built this using YQL, Firehose API, and JQuery. There is a lot of work I need to do to clean up the code, make it work in all the browsers etc.
