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I'd rather have tracking deeper than the first page of each site, than themed sections, not that it's a bad idea.
I wouldn't mind CSV or JSON data and I'm sure some people would prefer XML. Should be trivial to make dumps in each of those formats.
When I read the title I thought you made something that found the original source of a syndicated/re-posted article.
Anyway, since you have a database of submissions to HN, Reddit and Digg, there's alot of interesting things to do.
Off the top of my head, how about a side-by-side view of parallel discussions?
EDIT, some more suggestions:
Make a downloadable dump of your data at the end of each day. Would be useful for all the people scraping HN for their own purposes/websites.
Twitter would be more useful than Digg, although all the short-urls do pose a problem.
Your top15 page (http://dexjra.com/row_view) is strange. Why isn't HN there except the "First at Hacker News view" part?
Found a good website that sells all these new tablets/UMPCs/MIDs coming out of China: http://www.merimobiles.com/Computer_products_s/176.htm
There are 6 devices with wifi and touchscreens for less than $200.
This website has videos and ifnormation on a lot of new devices: http://www.shanzai.com/
That's a good point, I guess the orientation of the subpixels could make things weird.
They show both portrait and landscape mode in the video and it doesn't look like there's a problem though.
The WIFI is on-board. Ethernet,usb,etc are supposed to be provided through a docking station (which I haven't seen anywhere). If you view the video included in the article, they mention this as well as point out the WIFI led on the device.
I think Rapidshare not being responsible for infringement must be contingent on what Rapidshare does to fight it.
Well they have damn good lawyers, since now they don't have to check filenames, check checksums, IP addresses, manually check lists of links (according to your post below) and whatever else.
So what does that leave Rapidshare with? Do they just have to manually check files when a copyright owner submits a complaint with a list of links?
(On a sidenote, I could make a pretty good link finder and make it send complaints automatically, there must be some good money in offering such a service to copyright owners)
>It's a huge win for the site, which suffered a major setback in the case before a Düsseldorf court back in 2008.
A huge win for Rapidshare, a loss for website owners, since this implies that the responsibility lies on those who host or publish links to Rapidshare.
That post uses Domains by Proxy as an example, which is an awful service. Towards the end of the article, Dynadot explains the whois protection service THEY offer themselves. That's what Namecheap (and other registrars) does and it's what I've always used.
I can tell you for a fact that I receive a lot less email spam at the email address I use for whois, because Namecheap changes the address (which forwards to mine) listed every other day. Also I don't get any snail mail junk, although this was never a big issue.
Exactly. I mentioned this in my original post above. They already know whether the "pay what you want" sale works or not.
You should use an extra line break between paragraphs in order to avoid wall-of-text mode.
It surely is a way to discourage people that aren't serious about their business plan. However, my instinctual response is: No.
What is so wrong about body odour? I'm sure there must have been a time, not too long ago, when people smelled like people.
Sometimes, I don't shower for 3-4 days. You don't sweat that much if you are hacking away at a keyboard for 12 hours a day.
I don't see how showering ever day is hygienic. You are stripping your skin and hair of natural oils,bacteria and whatnot. Then you have to use more substances to fight the negative effects of the above. On top of that, you spray yourself with long-lasting synthetic smells or things that stop your armpits from sweating.
I shower every other day, more or less. I don't use deodorants. I don't use colognes, except on rare occasions. Haven't had any complaints from other people.
I'm not sure what you mean by "pathological users", though isn't 20% better than 0%?
Tax for just a USB stick sent by a friend? Ouch. I'm curious , what was the origin/destination of the package?
I've used whois protection services for years (and for thousands of domains), there's never been a problem for me.
When the whois protection service is provided by the registrar you used to register the domain, how is that third party ownership? They already have a lot of control over the domain.
I don't know about ICANN rules on the matter, however I think they would have pressured registrars to stop offering such services, if that was the case.
If you have further information/links on the subject, please elaborate.
At my current location in Europe, low cost items usually pass through customs without a lot of extra tax, although sometimes it comes down to luck. Should be 20%-25% total if they decide to tax it.
On a sidenote, the seller I linked to is flexible about what price they stick on your package. You don't want to overdo it though, otherwise you might end up paying even more tax than normal.
I like this model. Surely the developers behind these games are going to get some new fans and customers.
As an anecdote, I played World of Goo at a friend's once. He copied it on my USB stick and I played more at home. A few months later there was a "pay what you want" promotion for just World of Goo. I bought it to support the developers, even though I had already finished the game and there was nothing new to play with. It's a great game and I recommend it for a few hours of fun.
You can buy it for $130 plus free shipping at: http://www.pandawill.com/mini-ipad-notebook-7-inch-wifi-grav...
It comes with Android 1.6 but there's a comment on the above website saying it can be upgraded. You can also find it for less than $100 on sites like alibaba.com and dhgate.com but you will have to buy more than one unit.
An interesting point is the counter on CaptchaAd's homepage saying they have served over 23 million ads. They must have some data on how effective this is.
Why not offer both? Casual users might prefer to use the web app, advanced users can mine their own data. However, if I were to use a plugin to export my search data, I would expect it to be good at capturing/extracting search queries on a variety of websites and maybe have some additional features. Otherwise, I could just mine my Firefox history directly.
By the way, you could build a web app that runs on the desktop with Appcelarator's Titanium, or port the existing one to Titanium.
Namecheap offers free PositiveSSL certificates, as well as a free whois masking option. You must register or transfer a domain there to get it, but it's not tied to the domain you buy, so you could buy a new domain and use the free cert on an older one.
How do you cluster links/stories?
Do you use any open source software in the back-end? I wouldn't mind a list of what you used to make this.
>When one system dominates a particular domain and locks users in, problems seem to naturally ensue. Unfortunately for privacy advocates, an open Linux-like system will have much more trouble coexisting with Facebook.
There are countless open source packages in this domain and countless people that run them or use them. Just how I like it, decentralized.
For example: Reddit, Status.net, Buddypress/Wordpress, Pligg, Elgg
A related koan: Non-attachment http://deoxy.org/koan/98
I don't really want to send anyone my web searching history, however I would be interested if the plugin could export data to csv,xml or json. That way I could datamine my search history with whatever tools I like to use.
You also have almost 700 users. Motivate them to create some content. More content -> more traffic -> more users -> more content.
You could also have your ad contain a regular captcha image.
The area around your captcha will be getting eyeballs, it's not a bad idea to use that space to pass a message to your users. Ad blindness is always an issue but that's why changing the way you present your promotional content, every now and then, is a good idea.
Some links I've gathered on the subject: http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2010/captcha-advertising/
I found 4 companies that are currently providing some kind of captcha advertising. It's an old idea that is being rediscovered from time to time.
I don't think you need an enormous amount of words/slogans/phrases. You can use different non-linear transformations on your content, different fonts, different layouts and so on. You can also fall back on a regular captcha, either for effectiveness or to not annoy users too much.