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I'm sorry but building your business on another business's data without explicit permission from them is just setting yourself up for this kind of thing.
by robotron 17y ago
I'm sorry but building your business on another business's data without explicit permission from them is just setting yourself up for this kind of thing.
- iamwil 17y agoIt's kinda funny that in the 90's, "web masters" wanted search engine crawlers to ask for permission to crawl their site. Right now, there's no economic advantage to sharing your data--especially in this case where Amazon is trying to protect its investment in the Kindle and its impending "App Store" for books. Perhaps when we have a way for published data to benefit the publisher, we won't have stuff like this going on.
- dazzawazza 17y agoTo clarify a little the Delicious App does have explicit permission to use the data but only for the desktop version. I work on a similar product (Beep My Stuff) and to be honest Amazon's data while far from perfect is the only real source.