Name: BuzzFeed Open Lab
Type: Organization
Bio: Archived projects from the BuzzFeed Open Lab for Journalism, Technology, and the Arts
Location: San Francisco, CA
Blog: https://www.buzzfeed.com/amandahickman/about-the-open-lab
BuzzFeed Open Lab's Projects
Loose Miscellany
Internet Connected Plush Toy Testing Repo
The (originally secret) tweeting pothole project
🤖 Beep Boop Bop – I am BuzzBot; a facebook messenger bot for newsrooms
a bunch of cubes, doing cube things. Feat. Robot Voices by Rob.
splash page for California on the Edge
Slack bot: listens in channel for emojis, assigns color to each, colors a simple HTML page based on most recent emoji.
Add presets and automations to your BuzzFeed SF standing desk
This internet connected treat dispenser feeds your dog based off of Facebook Live comments
A module that processes new Edgar filings and sends out notifications
Who get’s to tell the stories in our communities? You can build a hidden camera accessory to help tell the real stories in your neighborhood.
a trio of data-collecting, touch-sensitive stuffed animals
A chrome extension that replaces the text "BuzzFeed" with "Failing Pile of Garbage"
I think you mean "Frisco"
Get tweets matching a search term and location
audio annotation for webvr
A 3D VR HTC Vive environment exported from Google Earth for you to play with.
A demo of a chrome extension that highlights select vocabulary.
WIP
A bot for making facebook live streams interactive
a Chrome extension for adding noise to your data trails
simple sms bot built off spreadsheet
a twitter bot that generates fake pics of the senate floor
simple web app for random recipe exchanges
Dense image captioning interface
a watering can on one side of the planet waters a garden on the other
A watchdog tool for monitoring RSS feeds