The Launching of Hawkeye Tweets

There is no mistaking the fact that I am a HUGE Iowa Hawkeye Nerd.  If you hadn't noticed, two of the last three sites launched by Brice Cheddarn Development have been Hawkeye related.  Hawkapalooza was a pro-bono website put together to help a student organization at the University of Iowa.  NILE was put together for a client to help him promote his novel. 

Hawkeye Tweets is personal project to support my favorite team.  It was inspired by the work of colleagues, who put together Suns Tweets and Cards Tweets as a way to use Twitter in support of their teams.  I took the same concept and applied it to the Iowa Hawkeyes.

With the help of justSignal, the same technology used on Suns Tweets and Cards Tweets, I was able to put this site together in one massive all night, Monster-fueled hacking session.  Hawkeye Tweets uses the justSignal Twitter Widget to pull in the streaming tweets and ColdFusion to power the backend and other ancillary components.  ColdFusion will be used more heavily as the site expands.

justSignal is a company that helps other companies and individuals find all of the Social Media content they are interested in, without all the noise.  The technology collects a wide variety of information from social media outlets and helps people make sense of it all. It goes way beyond the Twitter widget I hacked into for Hawkeye Tweets and dives into the yet untapped wonderland of social media tracking and statistical analysis.   

Having met the founder of justSignal, Brian Troy, at Phoenix Startup Weekend, he was more than willing to help me put this site idea together.  I am thankful Brian took the time to help me plan out my site, and look forward to working with him on future projects.

Let's hope Hawkeye Tweets can help my Iowa Hawkeyes win a Big Ten Championship this year.  After yesterday's game, it is clear we need all the help we can get.

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