Things to do with the Infochimps API

The following is a list of things you could build with the Infochimps API. If you’ve found that one of these things is built or you have an idea of your own, please contact us and we will add it to the list.

• Filter influencers or non-influencers from any feed of tweets (Influence and/or Trstrank)
• Filter Twitter spam (Trstrank and/or influence)
• Build a word cloud for a Twitter user in any app (Wordbag)
• Target content/ads based on words a user tweets about the most (Wordbag)
• Find the true influence of a Twitter user by combining their Trstrank, ratio of friends/followers, ratio of statuses to retweets in, etc (Trstrank and Influence)
• Find social circles on Twitter, not by followers, but by who is actually talking to each other (Conversation)
• Target content/ads based on IP address (IP→Census)
• A/B test your website/web app based on demographic data (IP→Census)
• Build a site that lists a person’s Twitter followers with columns for trstrank, influence metrics (display them as ratios) and wordbag. (Trstrank, Influence, Wordbag)
• Integrate reputation metrics into your Twitter client to help users decide who and who not to follow and also filter their tweet streams. (Trstrank, Influence, Wordbag)
• Demographic web analytics. Build an app/plugin/etc to analyze web server logs (or log it and analyze remotely with JavaScript) that gives demographic information about a website’s users (IP→Census)