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Mashup of the day: Tracking disease trends, 140 characters at a time(programmableweb.com)
1 points by skram 14y ago|0 comments
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by skram 14y ago
You mean like http://archive.org ?
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MappyHealth - Following disease trends, 140 characters at a time(mappyhealth.com)
1 points by skram 14y ago|0 comments
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by skram 14y ago
status.heroku.com is up for me. My apps aren't though.
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by skram 14y ago
Post it please :)
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by skram 14y ago
Well like I said, google or even a targetted search on Github/Sourceforge will reveal a TON of libs. As for a GUI... I don't recall any free ones coming up in my search a few months back.
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by skram 14y ago
Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution (there are less of those) or a library to build upon (google "scraper"/"crawler" and the programming language of your choice). Either way, check out ScraperWiki: http://scraperwiki.com Hope
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by skram 15y ago
Good idea and nice site. My biggest question is if the technology is easily re-used to scour your established sources for other top 5's anywhere from top election candidates to the best hospitals in an area. @Skram
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by skram 15y ago
Perhaps http://www.scraperwiki.com unless you need it to be real time. Scraping: yes, develop or yourself: no.
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by skram 15y ago
Simple implementation of a good idea. A suggestion though: why not show the results in an info window/modal pop-over like a lot of Google Chrome widgets do? Seems like that would be much more usable.
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by skram 15y ago
Fastmail is a great service for a modest price. Definitely worth it unless you want (or need) to spring for MS Hosted Exchange in which case I'd Rackspace.
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by skram 15y ago
totally and i think it's just another good way websites can present their "snackable" content.
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by skram 15y ago
Very very very nice. I've been thinking of doing something similar for RSS feeds in general.
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by skram 15y ago
This has definitely been posted before and I still suggest http://www.fastmail.fm . They've been around for a while and are always upgrading and updating their services. If you want something enterprise-y, I'd suggest Rackspace either host
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by skram 15y ago
Just curious.. how does this differ from http://data.influenceexplorer.com/contributions/ (formerly transparencydata.org)? Thanks, @skram
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by skram 15y ago
Several APIs work like that. One example I can think of is IQEngines' (see http://developer.iqengines.com/apidoc/current/apis/query-api... ). You upload an image and a few moments later need to query another endpoint to get your results. O
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by skram 15y ago
+1 to Fastmail.fm (acquired by Opera a bit ago). Been happy with their IMAP/SMTP services as well as their web UX which keeps getting better.
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by skram 15y ago
This is so rad! Thank you Chris!