willu

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by willu 12y ago
"There is nothing (law, morals, or else) that prevents one from scraping a publicly accessible website." Can you point to any legal precedent that supports your contention (honest question)?
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by willu 12y ago
I am a fan of ProductHunt and look forward to their emails. BUT I do have to gripe a bit about the current very limited, "exclusive" commenting system. I want to get real insights from people who have used the product/servi
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by willu 12y ago
I was actually pretty excited about this because they happen to have a lot of music I listen to (electronic). I loaded up about two dozen albums and downloaded their Android MP3 app. Tried to play a track and was told the track was no lon
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by willu 12y ago
FWIW, they do have Tycho... http://www.amazon.com/Awake-Tycho/dp/B00FSU5OFS/
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by willu 12y ago
This is basically the BloomReach approach to SEO and Google seems to be going after it in a serious way lately. The big issue is quality control. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to create these sorts of landing pages
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by willu 12y ago
In some regards I agree. The rules are constantly shifting and they are unevenly enforced in a way that favors large, established sites which is frustrating for smaller players. Good examples here: http://nenadseo.com/big-
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by willu 12y ago
"In late 2005 it acquired NetNewsWire and hired me." "I shipped NetNewsWire Lite 4.0 on the Mac App Store, and a couple months later sold NetNewsWire to Black Pixel..." How do you sell a product after it has been acquire
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by willu 12y ago
So GoogleBot can't scrape more than 10 NYT articles per month, right?
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by willu 12y ago
I've wondered this as well. The market seems really limited - people who are savvy enough to know about/use Aereo but are content with occasionally watching just a handful of broadcast networks...who aren't really producing
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by willu 12y ago
It was pretty straightforward in our case. We had to show them that we had use cases that weren't feasible with the default access level and also demonstrate that we weren't competing with their user experience at all. Not sure
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by willu 12y ago
Yes, Twitter streaming API plus several other data sources (Facebook, Reddit, forums, etc.). It's enough for us since we're always filtering by keywords or users. We were also granted elevated access.
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by willu 12y ago
Interesting, I had gotten the impression Twitter was aligning itself more with DataSift in recent years. I used Gnip a few years ago and thought it was a great service, although the high price point drove us to ultimately roll our own.