FrooglePEG

Dear Lazyweb,

Would someone please build FrooglePEG? Just a little app that hits froogle.google.com, selects from the front page list of "items recently found with Froogle" pulls one of the images returned, and displays them in a never-ending stream? Bonus points for making the speed at which images update configurable by the user.

Why? Why not! Who wouldn't want a real-time glimpse into the soul of ecommerce?

Best,
Michael

Comments

[alan taylor]

Lazyweb delivery:

http://www.kokogiak.com/frooglestream/default.asp

View the source and see that it's a remote snippet of javascript that can be copied & pasted into any site. It's a bit slow (not cached), and Google's image servers can be a bit laggy too - but an interesting experiment nontheless. It grabs a random 4 terms from the froogle front page, loads a slew of images (about 75-100) from the results page into a javascript array, then randomly displays the images. Bonus - a timer can be set by the "tmr" parameter, found in the script src url. The default is 1 (second) between transitions.

It's rough and slapdash, but was fun to do, lemme know if there are suggestions ;)

[StickyC]

I wonder if Google will catch on and publish a Froogle Zeitgeist page...

[mendel]

Might be able to make Jamie Zawinski's webcollage more directed by using the driftnet feature with something that is not driftnet but works like it.