This project uses Version 1 of the Google Buzz REST API to track groups of people on buzz. All of the code for interacting with the Buzz API is written in python. The project is divided into two components:

1. buzztracker: A python package for interacting with buzz
2. examples: Several examples for using this code. Each example contains a README with instructions for running the code.

To use the package without database storage involves the following dependencies:

• django
• httplib2
• simplejson

Database storage currently depends on the Zope Object Database. Database storage is used extensively in the friend of a friend example. This is the python package dependency for the Zope Object Database:

• ZODB3

The friend of a friend example also uses various python-based tools for scientific computing. These dependencies are:

• matplotlib
• scipy
• numpy
• ipython

All of these require you to build supporting c libraries. On Mac OS X, macports greatly facilitates this task.