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by jdrock 17y ago
I think they had video there.. check the Infochimps blog for info: http://blog.infochimps.org/ (not there yet, but hopefully they'll post it if it exists).
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by jdrock 17y ago
Anyone saying the interactive section is not tech-focused is out of the (tech) loop. Case in point: I attended the Infochimps Data Cluster Meetup. They kicked it off with a debate around SQL vs NOSQL. 5 minutes into one of the NOSQL guys
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Ask HN: New 80legs website design & feedback
3 points by jdrock 17y ago|3 comments
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by jdrock 17y ago
coderdude - I work at 80legs ( http://www.80legs.com ). Just messaged you via your contact form. We should talk about a potential partnership. It would make more sense to cooperate than to compete, as we are in the same market.
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by jdrock 17y ago
If you're interested in doing this, just use 80legs, which lets you provide your own applications to customize web content processing ( http://80legs.pbworks.com/80apps ).
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by jdrock 17y ago
Yep. The only reason it caught on was because it was made available through a tool everyone uses already.. kind of like how Internet Explorer is used..
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by jdrock 17y ago
Well, that was sort of the point of my original comment. The test will work if bar-people represent your target customer base. This won't be the case for B2B products and may not be the case for some Consumer products.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Yeah, I don't know a bar frequented by people interested in the Semantic Web or web-crawling.
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by jdrock 17y ago
One additional note that should be added: results will only be useful if your desired customer base is represented well by people at a bar.
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by jdrock 17y ago
The buyer doesn't do his valuation based on what's put into the company.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Pete still uses us for his crawling. He switched over to AWS for some of his crawling because we had a throttle on some of the sites he wanted to crawl. But now that we know we can crawl those sites more quickly, we're looking into relaxi
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by jdrock 17y ago
Always tough to be in the in-between stages. Providing an index is something we'll probably consider in the near future. We did a survey with our users and found that a fair number would like to have an index of our/their crawled data.
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by jdrock 17y ago
p.s. We're looking into integrating 80legs with Lucene/Nutch/Solr for indexing goodness.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Are you trying to build your own index or do you just want to make a limited number of calls to someone else's index?
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by jdrock 17y ago
Please do not go out and pick sword fights.
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by jdrock 17y ago
I'm not sure if the Wii controller is accurate enough to realize what imaginative developers would have in mind for it. Case in point: Force Unleashed has a very limited set of motions (vertical/horizontal swings). This game should have be
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by jdrock 17y ago
Perhaps an additional requirement is good marketing from the App Store company. Apple aggressively markets the iPhone App Store. I don't see Google doing the same. iPhone Apps are a big success because they are "top of mind" for the gene
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by jdrock 17y ago
App Stores are much more likely to be a viable business for an already-successful technology company with a well-known brand. Speaking from personal experience, App Stores don't work very well for smaller companies with a smaller customer b
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by jdrock 17y ago
Isn't this what Posterous is for?
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by jdrock 17y ago
The reason the request rate was at 4 was that at some point your site responded to 4 req/sec without problems. User-agent is the accepted and standardized way to communicate with bots. Getting angry at us for following robots.txt is like
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by jdrock 17y ago
The thing is I was playing nice - responding immediately to your Twitter message, changing the rate asap. But then I come onto HN and see a complaint from you without mentioning we responded quickly. Not cool in my book. You're saying pe
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by jdrock 17y ago
1. We identify ourselves very clearly in our request header through our user-agent, including a link to our website. It's not "savvy" to look for this. It's basic webmaster knowledge. 2. Per another commenter, I can see how the language m
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by jdrock 17y ago
So.. we usually get comments like this on webmaster forums, and I usually just let them go, but since HN is "my" forum, I feel like saying something. 1. We identify ourselves as user-agent 008. The proper way to track a bot is through user
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by jdrock 17y ago
Check out our service, 80legs, for help with your back-end web-crawling. (My goal this weekend, and ongoing, is to get more users for 80legs!! :)
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by jdrock 17y ago
Being able to predict where/when murder happens leads to a more efficient and effective distribution of law enforcement. Other cities have done this with non-violent crime/traffic violations/etc., and crime has gone down. So prediction = pr
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by jdrock 17y ago
Not understanding the downvotes. Solving this problem would easily save hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, in law enforcement and litigation costs. To put a paltry $100 reward for _preventing murder_ is, frankly, pathetic.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Blech. This is not an easy problem and that's all they offer? <snarky>Is that the dollar value Philly puts on a life?</snarky>
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by jdrock 17y ago
You're talking about Digsby. If you managed to follow the story to its conclusion, you'll see that they dramatically changed the install process to follow Plura's (our sister company) affiliate agreement.
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by jdrock 17y ago
We have thought about it.. there is a downloadable app an individual can use, but it's not too likely they'll earn any significant money.
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by jdrock 17y ago
They're not infected with spyware. Some of the computing power comes from the users of freeware applications, who are asked _during install_ if they want to enable the grid system that powers us.

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