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Bitly News
- shrikant 16y agoFor those wondering wtf (like I did for a couple of minutes after clicking through), from http://bitlynews.com/about.html http://bitlynews.com/about.html: It works by automatically discovering bit.ly links on Twitter in real-time, then posting stories with high click activity on bit.ly. Each story's score is periodically updated with recent stats from bit.ly, so the most clicked-on stories bubble to the top.
- acangiano 16y agoUnless they are doing some clever filtering, this can be very easily abused.
- schammy 16y agoIt's already half garbage anyways. Recipes and fashion tips? Just what I always wanted! Would be cool if things could be categorized somehow so I could only see the top stories being shared for things I actually care about. I realize this isn't really possible but one can dream.
- royrod 16y agoGreat site, fun summary of popular links.
- davidu 16y agoThis is very cool. I will be bookmarking.
- dchs 16y agoLooks familiar!
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- jrmg 16y agoNot likely: http://blog.bit.ly/post/2071681766/announcing-the-winners-of-the-bit-ly-api-contest http://blog.bit.ly/post/2071681766/announcing-the-winners-of...
- klous 16y agoFrom the list of winners, honorable mention went to: HN+Influence http://hnfluence.com/ http://hnfluence.com/ - A Hacker News remix that accounts for bit.ly click counts and Backtweets data.
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- Rygu 16y ago502 Proxy Error Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /. Reason: Error reading from remote server -- Dead already? edit: it's up again!
- malbiniak 16y agoDead again. Edit: Up again.
- chrisbroadfoot 16y agoDead again.
- jgv 16y agoThis just won the bit.ly api contest. Congrats to the developer(s), it looks great!
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- hkuo 16y agoLove it. I finally have a one-stop resource for breaking news for popular culture and other things outside of the web/tech/digital news that I spend the vast majority of my time reading.
- petercooper 16y agoReddit is awesome for that, BTW, especially as it's sorta categorized and you can add/remove subreddits depending on your interests.
- bretthoerner 16y agoI would like this for just my "network", maybe people I follow and people they follow.
- icey 16y agoHeh, whoever put this together didn't remove the user account stuff. I just created an account there and was able to comment & submit stories. Although, I guess that might have been intended functionality.
- random42 16y agoTo me, ability to comment makes sense, ability to submit stories does not (as per the about page)
- zachbeane 16y agoUses a version of news.arc vulnerable to the identity stealing problem described in http://xach.livejournal.com/228481.html http://xach.livejournal.com/228481.html That's still the latest version of news.arc publicly available, though.
- nj 16y agoSorry for being off topic, but where can you get the news.arc code?
- JacobAldridge 16y agoThis should send you on your way - http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/
- bigmac 16y agoThis thing has real potential. Props to whoever put it together.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoNice. It would be even nicer if it could intelligently handle deduplication. At the moment there are 6 World Cup news stories on the front page.
- jeffmiller 16y agoI'm the developer of Bitly News. One thing I'd like to add to the site is automatic categorization of links, like on Google News. If anyone has suggestions on how to accomplish that, please comment. I'm also struggling with intermittent 502 proxy errors on the server where Apache has problems proxying to news.arc on localhost.
- bvi 16y agoExcellent job.
- malloreon 16y agoRe: categorization, would this solve your problem? http://www.kosmix.com/corp/developer http://www.kosmix.com/corp/developer
- jeffmiller 16y agoThat might work. I'll look into it - thanks.
- markelliot 16y agoI was working on a similar app but ran into issues getting enough of the twitter stream, what access to the Twitter API are you using (is this all from the gardenhose)?
- jeffmiller 16y agoYep, just using the plain old Twitter search API via tweepy, with a search term of 'http bit.ly'.
- hooande 16y agoalchemyapi does some basic categorization, but it can be expensive with a high volume.
- LeBlanc 16y agoYou could look into the Open Calais API. http://viewer.opencalais.com/ http://viewer.opencalais.com/ Newsley uses it to categorize financial news items - http://newsley.com http://newsley.com
- hammock 16y agoIt would be REALLY awesome if it also scraped the text of each tweet (sans link) and converted it into comments on each thread. Identical tweets would translated into 'upvotes' on the comments. This is great.
- mambodog 16y agoI also think this would be really cool, although I would make retweets the source of 'comment' upvotes.
- mikeknoop 16y agoYes I was hoping for this. In fact, why limit yourself to Bit.ly links? You could literally index every link coming through Twitter. Future expansion: move from Twitter to all public links shared on the entire internet.
- jeffmiller 16y agoAt first I tried indexing all links (not just bitly ones) but the volume of results was too much to keep up with. I'm just using the plain old twitter search API. And the project was for the Bitly API Contest, so I figured I'd just look at bitly links and leave it at that.
- jeffmiller 16y agoThat's a great idea -- I'll try implementing it. Thanks.
- cagenut 16y agoVery very cool in concept. In practice... the content is borderline unreadable. Though I guess thats a me thing.
- mambodog 16y agoYeah I have to agree, but I still find this app very interesting and worthwhile. It's just a shame the most tweeted stuff is such dire, pointless BS.
- kevinburke 16y agoI'm surprised so many of the links are in English.
- subbu 16y agoWhy is there a login button and register form if all stories/links are picked from bit.ly automatically. I mean, there is not much registered/logged in users can do.
- jgv 16y agoJust got picked up by tech crunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/bitly-news/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/bitly-news/
- wallflower 16y agoSee also http://pulsememe.com http://pulsememe.com (top 10 story list generated from Pulse news app usage)
- lanstein 16y agoForgot I had clicked the link, was wondering how the technical level of content plummeted so quickly. I need more coffee.
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- initself 16y agoI love the "welcome" feature.
- pepijndevos 16y agoFunny, I made this only yesterday: http://pepijndevos.nl/the-age-of-apis-and-virtual-ghost-towns http://pepijndevos.nl/the-age-of-apis-and-virtual-ghost-town...
- jorkos 16y agocategories are needed as you don't have a unified community submitting content
- yosho 16y agoheh if this takes off, I can imagine almost every aggregator site having a HN clone of some sort.
- markkat 16y agoNot sure why, but I feel reticent to comment on an aggregated link. I think this might be an issue. Not sure why, but I want to know that someone had a stake in the submission.
- tonycore 16y agoSimple. Effective.