How Lanyrd uses Twitter
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Lanyrd.com is a website that provides a definitive database of professional events and speakers, enables social recommendations of events, and includes comprehensive speaker profiles with archived materials like slides and videos. It utilizes crowdsourcing and shared contributions from users (a wiki-style model). The site integrates heavily with Twitter to discover event discussions, promote speaker profiles, and provide recommendation features based on a user's Twitter follows. It aims to make professional conferences and networking more effective.
How Lanyrd uses Twitter
- 1. Lanyrd.com making conferences work Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 2. Lanyrd.com Definitive database of professional events and speakers Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 3. Lanyrd.com Definitive database Social event recommendation of professional events Comprehensive speaker profiles and speakers Archive of slides, notes and video Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 4. Lanyrd.com Demo Tuesday, 3 May 2011
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- 9. Lanyrd.com Why does it work? •The right crowdsourcing incentives •Wiki-style shared ownership •The parts support the whole •Twitter! Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 10. Lanyrd.com Why Twitter? •It’s where the event discussion happens •Speakers promote their Twitter accounts •Follow beats Friend for recommendations •Culturally amenable to public profiles Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 11. Lanyrd.com Twitter as an Identity Platform •Make assertions about any Twitter user •Create profiles to be claimed later •Instant personalisation •Naturally viral Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 12. Lanyrd.com More demos Tuesday, 3 May 2011
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- 14. Lanyrd.com (Inspired by Rapportive) Tuesday, 3 May 2011
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- 17. Lanyrd.com Under the hood Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 18. Lanyrd.com Calendar •Pull user’s friends/ids.json •Cache for ten hours •Store in Redis •Solr search: attendees:(34722 OR 1312313 OR... Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 19. Lanyrd.com Redis set intersection Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 20. Lanyrd.com users/search.json Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 21. Lanyrd.com friendships/create Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 22. Lanyrd.com lanyrd.com badges.lanyrd.net Load balancer HTTP cache (nginx) (varnish) app server app server app server (Django/Apache) (Django/Apache) (Django/Apache) background caching (memcache) processing (celery and cron) search server search server search server (solr master) (solr slave) (solr slave) K/V store Database (redis) (MySQL RDS) Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 23. Lanyrd.com @lanyrd attending #devnest Tuesday, 3 May 2011
- 24. Lanyrd.com We’re hiring! (soon) Tuesday, 3 May 2011