"Mention-It" is a simple javascript library to aggregate "mentions" of content held within an institutional repository (or personal blog/webpage) from across the web.

"Mention-It" is built using the following technologies:

• jQuery - http://jquery.com/
• Google AJAX Feed API - http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/
• Twitter API - http://twitter.com
• FriendFeed API - http://friendfeed.com

Currently "Mention-It" searches the following web sources for mentions from around the web:

• Twitter - http://twitter.com
• FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com
• Google Blog Search - http://blogsearch.google.com/
• Technorati - http://technorati.com

"Mention-It" can also be easily extended (i.e. modified) to search any site that allows users to subscribe to an RSS or ATOM feed of search results. If you make any interesting modifications, let me know or post a patch in the "Issues" section. I'd definitely love to have others' cool hacks to make it back into the code (and yes, you will be attributed/mentioned as having helped make "Mention-It" even better).

More summaries of Mention-It on the Web:

• "Mention-It" Overview/Demo Video: http://www.vimeo.com/4751173
• "Mention-It" was the RepoChallenge winner at Open Repositories 2009: http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org/2009/05/20/repochallenge-winners/
• More details about RepoChallenge win from http://bibapp.org: http://bibapp.org/2009/05/20/tim-donohue-wins-or2009-developer-challenge/

If you like or use Mention-It, please mention it on the web (#MentionIt or mention-it.googlecode.com). If you link to 'mention-it.googlecode.com' on Twitter or FriendFeed or your blog, you should see your own mentions appear shortly thereafter in the live demo. Also, feel free to send me a tweet (@timdonohue) about your usage / likes / dislikes.