This is a project I wrote the weekend of the Japan earthquake. <a href="http://tensecondstotokyo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tensecondstotokyo.com/</a><p>I wanted to see what was happening in Japan live from the people who live there.<p>I used node and socket.io to provide a realtime view of photos posted to Twitpic on Twitter. The server stores the last 100 photos found, so that's the max that are ever seen. Just a stream of photos.<p>Other than a few friends at work and some folks at a node.js talk I gave a few weeks ago, no one else has seen this. Well, I did show it to Mikey from Instagram when I ran into him at a coffee shop.<p>I'm also working on integrating Instagram's photos too, but haven't finished that yet.<p>Couple of notes:<p>1) There's never been more than a handful of people accessing the site at a time, so I have no idea how well it will scale. There's almost no load, so I suspect it shouldn't be too much of a problem.<p>2) My url parsing regex fu needs some work. If you watch the stream with dev tools enabled, you'll see a number of 404s from Twitpic where non-existent photos are being accessed. Don't worry, these don't show up visually on the site though.<p>Would love people's feedback, suggestions, and complaints. Especially from design-type folks. I'd like to give it a better look.<p>Conact info: @geuis or geuis.teses@gmail.com
I don't know if this counts as a hack (certainly it took a lot longer than a weekend) but here's my web-based timeline software done mainly in JS: <a href="http://www.tiki-toki.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tiki-toki.com</a>
If you don't need the real time element that NodeJS/NowJS offers, may I suggest you give <a href="http://www.akshell.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.akshell.com</a> a go. Real time features are in the works, but aren't currently publicly available.<p>We're really keen to see people experiment with server side JavaScript on the platform and will instantly answer any queries you may have on our mailing list at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/akshell" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/akshell</a>
Made a project last weekend using the raphael.js + the Facebook API.<p><a href="http://shalecraig.com/friendspore" rel="nofollow">http://shalecraig.com/friendspore</a><p>Since it's all local (no node + etc), your data stays with you.
Similar to Popcorn.js but more for visual effects:<p><a href="http://www.cacophonyjs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cacophonyjs.com/</a><p>(self plug :)