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I don't think Weather Channel was threatened by Wunderground's market share. A more plausible explanation I've heard is to reduce competition for advertisers i
by wensing 14y ago
I don't think Weather Channel was threatened by Wunderground's market share. A more plausible explanation I've heard is to reduce competition for advertisers in the weather space.
- ihsw 14y agoBut competition is good.
- wahsd 14y agoweatherspark.com That will surly suit your fancy
- dfc 14y agoI concur, weatherspark is awesome. My only complaint is that the documentation is a little lacking for some of the advanced charts. Does anyone know if NWS has a good API?
- subwindow 14y agoIt's pretty good. Last time I looked (3-4 years ago), the hard part was getting decent radar data/images.
- jonstjohn 14y agoThere are number of different ways to access the NWS data and graphs - not surprisingly it is hard to discover them! They do have an XML web service for daily and hourly forecasts http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/ http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/ but you can also download binary files that contain all the same weather elements for the US. I'm actually close to completing a python library that will be open source and provide an easy way to access the NWS national digital forecast database.
- rhizome 14y agoYour sentences would appear to contradict each other.
- jusben1369 14y agoNot really. Now advertisers can't play one platform off against the other. Now they'll just sell you ads across both platforms with better rates.
- rhizome 14y agoThe "market" is the advertisers, so definitely a threat. One reason Facebook seems different is that it's more naturally social, but the truism remains: if you're not paying, you're not the customer. That WU pinned an ad-free account at $10/YEAR tells me TWC was likely not happy with them as competitors.