Mining interesting data about your name

http://whatsinmyname.prokta.com

by lazy_nerd • 13 years ago

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whatsinmyname.prokta.com

trebor• 13 years ago

Wish I could just enter a name. I don't use my social media logins to sign in to other sites any longer.

lazy_nerd4• 13 years ago

We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

netrus• 13 years ago

Wo don't you just use a captcha?

HNJohnC• 13 years ago

That seems to me to be a terrible and Byzantine solution to a very easily resolved problem. So easily resolved in fact that I question whether this is really the reason why or are you harvesting data for some other purpose?

I too never use my facebook or twitter logins for anything unless it's absolutely critical.

It sounds like it could be fun otherwise.

richardwhiuk• 13 years ago

If only there was some other way to implement rate limiting....

anExcitedBeast• 13 years ago

Same. This is just silly.

logjam• 13 years ago

No, c'mon, I won't login with twitter or facebook.

linux_devil• 13 years ago

good work !

jgmmo• 13 years ago

I don't know you, I don't trust you, and I won't be giving you my social login.

Should've just had it let us enter our names with a simple captcha.

aaronbasssett• 13 years ago

Made by beevolve a company who:

Monitor your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts and measure resulting sales and engagement for those posts - all in one easy-to-use platform. Designed for SMBs.

Yeah,sure. Why don't I just give you access to my social networking accounts. That sounds like a fantastic idea…

lazy_nerd4• 13 years ago

We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.

davewasmer• 13 years ago

Why does the app need permission to post tweets for me? Not a chance, sorry.

lazy_nerd4• 13 years ago

You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

aguynamedben• 13 years ago

"Ben Dover" sure is a popular name... https://www.evernote.com/shard/s97/sh/5a445178-f0ab-4eb2-863...

Mining interesting data about your name

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