2. What is Twet?
• Twet is a project surrounding each users point of
interest
• A point of interest can be anything, from
object, animal, people to even ideas
• The project facilitates people’s need to always be
updated with what everyone is saying
3. Components
• The process of developing this application
consists of the following:
▫ Working with WordNet’s database
▫ Connecting results taken from Web services
▫ Creating the GUI using Silverlight
4. WordNet’s Database
• WordNet offers besides an extensive
downloadable database, a desktop application
and even a web service for the user
• Queries the data was made using sqarql and a
library for C#
6. Collecting data from the Internet
• In order to always stay in touch with the latest
news, we chose Twitter as the main project’s web
service, but also GeoCode (from Google Maps)
and Flickr API to improve the search parameters
• Connecting to each REST-API was made using
WebClient C# class
8. Creating the interface
• For creating an interesting GUI, Silverlight was
chosen as the platform
• Silverlight is a platform developed by Microsoft
to create web applications offering a great
pallette of components and an easy to use IDE.
