Technology
- Front end: HTML, CSS, javascript & jquery
- Web app framework: proprietary java framework supporting flexible page templating and nestable components.
- Snippet extraction: proprietary algorithm based on page location, word count, link density and simple heuristics.
- Servlet container: Tomcat
- Web server: httpd
- Web host: Linux (Ubuntu server)
- Database: MySQL
- Twitter API client: Twitter4J
- HTTP Client: HTTP Components
- HTML Parser: Jsoup
- Build system: Ant
- Source control: Subversion
- IDE: Eclipse
- Market prices: Yahoo! Finance API (YQL)