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   by umar_saif 14y ago

   Additback.com turns social "likes" into increased traffic for a site. It analyzes the social graph of users and recommends friends to be tagged who are most likely to read, like and discuss the post. Powered by a state-of-the-art recommenda
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   Startup: Targeted sharing with friends most likely to read and discuss (additback.com)

   2 points by umar_saif 14y ago|1 comments
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   by umar_saif 14y ago

   Joe Google Flu Trends is pretty good at tracking geo-mapped disease trends. They track all related queries (symptoms, drugs, treatments etc). Take a look at the nature paper they wrote in 2008: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n72
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   by umar_saif 14y ago

   Google Flu trends (Nature, Aug'08) tracks the query volume of the symptoms of a disease like Flu; its a pretty neat idea, especially for countries that do not have a CDC-scale disease surveillance system. An important question is whether/ho
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   Early epidemic detection from Google Flu Trends(dritte.org)

   24 points by umar_saif 14y ago|7 comments
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   by umar_saif 14y ago

   Why we don't see any homerun product-based startups in the developing world ...
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   Startups for the "other" 4 Billion(washingtonpost.com)

   2 points by umar_saif 14y ago|1 comments
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   by umar_saif 16y ago

   Thanks, will do.
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   by umar_saif 16y ago

   Thank you for this input. We didn't want to change much in the most popular Bittorrent client (Vuze) that we used for building this. You are right, we will work on releasing a light (perhaps sans-UI) version of this soon ..
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    by umar_saif 16y ago

    I am not sure what you mean by "reverse the changes", but if you want to improve upload contribution for a low-bandwidth node, it is built into BitMate (it improves both download performance and upload contribution of bittorrent). Actually,
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    by umar_saif 16y ago

    Just saw the surging traffic on our download site and noticed the link from HN. Re: Aggressive sharing. Yes and no. If the torrent is encoded as a Merkle tree, you can verify subsets of a piece. For torrents that only include piece-level ha