http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev Fri, 22 May 2009 00:09:11 GMT Jive SBS 3.0.8 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-05-22T00:09:11Z http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev/2009/05/21/active-inspiration <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:ee59af97-e3d0-44bf-958c-04677025663e] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p><a href="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-14138-8062/icon-inspiration.png"><img height="80" src="http://community.active.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-14138-8062/97-80/icon-inspiration.png" width="97"/></a> During a recent meeting somebody on my team came up with the idea of pulling in "inspirational" tweets, photos, videos from around the web for a given Active topic, like <em>marathon</em> or <em>10k</em>.&nbsp; I thought it was a great idea, so we worked together to build a prototype and threw it on <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://labs.active.com/">Labs</a>.&nbsp; </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Enter Active Inspiration.&nbsp; We're pulling in the latest tweets and photos about <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://labs.active.com/inspiration/topic/marathon">marathons</a>, <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://labs.active.com/inspiration/topic/triathlon">triathlons</a> and <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://labs.active.com/inspiration/topic/cycling">cycling</a>.&nbsp; I suppose you could say this was also inspired by <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://flickrvision.com/">flickrvision</a> and <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://twittervision.com/">twittervision</a>, except ours is meme-based and also aggregates from multiple sources (we'll be adding more soon).</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>We think there are lots of interesting things we can do with this data.&nbsp; This is just the beginning.&nbsp; As always, let us know what you think.</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:ee59af97-e3d0-44bf-958c-04677025663e] --> active inspiration product_development labs Fri, 22 May 2009 00:20:07 GMT JeremyGThomas http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev/2009/05/21/active-inspiration 2009-05-22T00:20:07Z 6 months, 6 days ago 2 0 http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev/comment/active-inspiration http://community.active.com/blogs/productdev/feeds/comments?blogPost=14138