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Hey aditya, I was responding specifically to your confident assertion that "no one is bringing it together," which is a bit of a stretch, in fairness to the ma

• aditya 18y ago
  yeah -- didn't mean to underplay what all these people have been doing, it isn't an easy problem to solve (possibly why you're all working on it, right? :) The point I was trying to make was, the data is out there (especially with Twitter) - if you're an interested hacker and you understand your unique local problems, why not figure out a way to build the tools that will help your community based on all the public data sources available, as opposed to waiting for EveryBlock (or anybody else) to expand their coverage. I'm sure you've thought about the problem more than I have but de-centralization and encouraging communities to build their own tools seems like a much better longer term model, no?