Concept Buzz is an application / site idea that will allow a person to track interest in their concept, project, whatever. I wrote a blog post on the topic back in March and that can be found at:

http://conceptualadvantage.com/concept-factory/concept-buzz-generate-concept-interest/

The main idea is to allow someone to embed a widget in their page that will allow others to see a sparkline that is indicating what the overall buzz is for a concept. The overall conceptbuzz is aggregated from a number of different urls by using an administration screen to pull together a number of urls into a concept group.

Individual buzz units are tracked through monitoring social media channels such as twitter, delicious, digg, etc.

In addition to just an overall buzz score, I had envisaged buzz being able to provide some direction on roadmapped features for a particular product. For example, if the buzz widget was embedded into a url that related to a particular product feature the popularity of that feature could be measured against other features.

I currently have a google code project set up plus hosting on appengine up and running:

http://code.google.com/p/conceptbuzz/ (haven't yet applied app-engine-patch to SVN) http://www.conceptbuzz.net/

Technologies

Client-side

• jQuery + javascript

Server-side

• python
• google appengine
• django via app-engine-patch (http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch)

Tasks

To be completed.