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Yes, I just launched yesterday : http://www.rtcool.com/ http://www.rtcool.com/ - It's an API for news readers.

• executive 15y ago
  doesn't work.
  • lowglow 15y ago
    What url did you try? It's not perfect, but it is getting better. :)
  • lowglow 15y ago
    Also, let me point out that it doesn't work on pages that aren't necessarily articles. For instance, someone did a search using : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390727 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390727 I've got an update coming down the tunnel to fix this, but it might be difficult with this page because there isn't much substance. I'll think more about how to solve this in a way that makes sense relevant to the rest of the pages out there. My main focus is to not write any code for edge cases, but to figure out a way to solve the whole of the web at once. :)
• eli 15y ago
  Very cool. I'm definitely interested. How do you foresee people integrating the API? And, roughly, what do you think you'd charge for it? (Also are you familiar with http://www.opencalais.com/ http://www.opencalais.com/ ?)
  • lowglow 15y ago
    Thanks. I'm happy you're interested. The first thing I see this service being used is for news readers. Not having to develop this technology themselves will lower the cost/barrier of entry into their markets, so hopefully they can focus on interfaces. Beyond that, I'm sure people could use it to scrape and aggregate information about what people are concerned with around the web. On charging for it, I'm not sure yet. I was thinking of using a credit model similar to Twilio for payment. Service might be 1c/unique (previously un-fetched article) and .1/0.1c for each fetched (cached) article. I've run across OpenCalais before and I think it's a great big idea -- I love the idea of a semantic web.