Itpints was a search engine created by Pixelatom and launched in February 2009. Itpints obtained results from sources such as social networks, newspapers, video**,** and picture sources. It was used to follow what people were saying about a topic at the moment.
The sources Itpints used for its search engine included: Twitter, Friendfeed, YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, Flickr, Digg, Plurk, among others.
Technology
Itpints was based on the LAMP platform and used the open source framework called LinxPHP Archived 2013-02-07 at the Wayback Machine originally written by Javier Arias.
References
- “Killer Startups: ItPints.com – Real Time Search”. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
- “Readwriteweb.com: Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies”. Archived from the original on 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2009-09-28.