Change your mood by reading news! Tell it how you feel and how you want to feel and My Moods shows you a progression of news articles from starting mood to target mood.

Team: James Lao, Joey Carmello, Jacob Guerra
APIs Used: Diffbot, EffectCheck, Google News

read more: http://diffbot.com/webmininghackday#2

WordPress plugin for visualizing emotions as you compose a blog.h
Team: Viet Nguyen, Sumit Vij, Quynh Pham
APIs Used: Diffbot, EffectCheck, Context.io, Wordpress

read more: http://diffbot.com/webmininghackday#6

Follow the crowd in real time. Shows a heatmap of location-based service checkins near you.
Team:
APIs Used: Foursquare

http://diffbot.com/webmininghackday#5

Analyzes the comments of a hacker news user to determine topics and how they feel about them.
Team: Debasish Das, Daniel Steinberg, Victoria Pan, Kevin Truong, Melissa Miranda, Juan Pineda
APIs Used: Diffbot, EffectCheck, AWS

read more: http://diffbot.com/webmininghackday#7

Web search for blind users. Readable articles returned for a search query is better for text-to-speech than reading traditional web pages. Clean article-view of the search results is also great for non-blind users.

Team: Nilesh Mahajan, Sharath Ravindran
APIs Used: Diffbot, Yahoo! BOSS

Social link sharing with rich previews and push notifications.
Team: Peter Shih, Tom Liou
APIs Used: Diffbot

Enter in a Quora username. Display the list of questions asked, with a graph of sentiment of the answers.
Team: Stormy Shippy
APIs Used: Quora, EffectCheck

read more: http://www.diffbot.com/webmininghackday#8

Use the top trends on twitter to query the web for news. Use the Diffbot API to display news articles.
Team: Zonghua Wu, Minh Doan
APIs Used: Twitter, Diffbot, Yahoo BOSS, AWS

read more: http://diffbot.com/webmininghackday#4

Get all posts by a given TC blogger and return a ranked list of most discussed topics ordered by bias.

Team: Shishir Kakaraddi, Vikram Patil, Aniket Mokashi, Neeral Beladia
APIs Used: Diffbot, EffectCheck

read more: http://diffbot.com/webmininghackday#1

For a stock ticker symbol, grabs stock related news from Google Finance. Articles are provided using the Diffbot API and the sentiment for each article graphed.
Team: Solomon Wu
APIs Used: Google Finance, Diffbot, EffectCheck

Team: Sebastien Arnold
APIs Used: context.io, datasciencetoolkit, Yahoo BOSS, OpenCalais

Create a photo gallery from your email inbox.
Team: Bruno Morency
APIs: context.io

read more: http://diffbot.com/webmininghackday#3

We retrieve articles written by a author that you are interested in.
Using diffbot article API and effectcheck API we retrieve sentiments for each article and the tags associated with it.
We build a Tag Cloud to demonstrate what are the "Hot Topics" i.e. topics for which the user sentiment was very high.

We tested it on articles written by Michael Arrington and for the hot topics we got : AOL, Advertising, 2008, CEO.
2008 is when he as one of the most influential people by Time Magazine.

Use Diffbot to monitor for deals
Team: Sankar Tanguturi
APIs Used: Diffbot

Team: Alvin Wang
APIs Used: IndexTank, 80legs

Analyze the top news stories for sentiment and display contrasting views of same topic from different sources
Team: Tyler Fields
APIs Used: Diffbot, EffectCheck

Monitor restaurants and product reviews over time
Team: Nilesh Mahajan, Sharath Ravindran
APIs used: Yelp