Twenital: Determines gender from a twitter handle

Twitter never stores the gender of their users. It makes the life of analytic engines very difficult to find that what is the ratio of men vs women on twitter.
Here I have created quick and dirty mash-up to get  gender of the twitter user.

How It Works?
Thanks to face.com API, they have recently released face recognition API. I am simply using their face recognition API to do this.

Here is AJAX code

function getusergender(imageurl) {
var url = 'http://api.face.com/faces/detect.json?api_key=1ce92a4c5e60f04c37bedf86c2d19387&urls=' + imageurl + '&callback=?';
$.getJSON(url, function (data) {
if (data.status == "success") {
if (data.photos[0].tags.length == 0) {
$("#resdiv").html('<div class="errormsg">hmmm..Let him/her put better profile picture. </b>TIP: put high resolution profile picture, facing front.</div>');
}
else if (data.photos[0].tags.length > 1) {
showerror('This user is multifaceted, Let him/her put better profile picture..');
}
else {
if (data.photos[0].tags[0].attributes.gender.value) {
var gender = data.photos[0].tags[0].attributes.gender.value;
if (data.photos[0].tags[0].attributes.gender.confidence > 40) {
if (gender == 'male') {
$("#resdiv").text('100% Male');
}
else {
$("#resdiv").text('Gorgeous Female');
}

}
else {
if (gender == 'male') {
$("#resdiv").text('Male');
}
else {
$("#resdiv").text('Female');
}
}
}
else {
showerror('hmmm... not sure!!');
}

}
}
else {
if (data.usage.used > 197) {
showerror('Sorry!! Application Overloaded!!');
}
else {
showerror('Processing failed!! Can not determine gender!!');
}
}
});

}

   DEMO  

Offline Google Maps in C#.net

Sometime back I wrote an application for windows mobile in c#.net which can give you turn-by-turn navigation on phone completely offline. Map and direction info will be pulled by a peer Desktop application which will export all these information in an XML file. This XML file will have these 2 Items

1. Static Map Images (covering the track at zoomed & top level))
2. Direction steps and description.

Static map images can be downloaded from Google using there static map API. Direction steps and descriptions can only be downloaded via a AJAX API. Since I had only AJAX way of getting this data, I created a webpage which can do all necessary DOM operation using JavaScript.  Once the DOM is populated I can easily grab the data from C# API (Web browser control + GetElementByID APIs).

Downloading the static Images from Google is not enough, you need to map Latitude and Longitude on the static map. Which is done like this

public PixelPoint GetCordinateOnStaticImage(double latitude, double longitude, 
double centerLat, 
double centerLang, 
int zoom,
double width,
double height)
{

       long val = 1 << ((21 - zoom));
       double target_y = LatToY(latitude); 
       double target_x = LongToX(longitude);
       double delta_x = (((target_x - LongToX(centerLang))) / (val));
       double delta_y  =(((target_y - LatToY(centerLat)) )/ (val));
       double marker_x = (width/2) + delta_x;
       double marker_y = (height/2) + delta_y;
       PixelPoint p = new PixelPoint(marker_x,marker_y);
       return p;
}

You can see Full source code here. Originally Idea is taken from here.


Direction
Google returns the poly-line of the direction path. Some of the points on this polyline will be identified as step, step has direction description, e.g "at blah blah circle take left".
This project solve another problem of pulling the right direction description from the given location.

SourceCode
Complete source-code of this project is available on Google code here.

Demo
Here is a demo video.