dtsingletary

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by dtsingletary 12y ago
Definitely would suggest going beyond the Klout Score and implementing a mix of topics, topical scores, interest and influence into the Klout calculation. The raw Klout Score is a bit broader than necessary for lead qualification and releva
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by dtsingletary 12y ago
Also worth investigating is http://apis.io/ , a growing repository for API interface design patterns.
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
What sort of options do you have for curation, filtering? How do you find the wheat from the chafe?
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
Why? It protects the user's privacy, unlike Facebook. Ask them for their email address after they authenticate and make it an act of volition.
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
This is silly. You've licensed nearly every game you ever bought since the 90s, likely even before that. You've never owned it; you just felt like you did. Server-side storage and 'online-only' gaming just solidifies this in a technological
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
This is my next YC project.
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
Instagram's Terms essentially say you have to respect the copyright and license of the photos. However, their API doesn't provide any mechanism to know what those licenses and copyrights are yet, which makes it pretty difficult to honor it.
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
Which is why it behooves you to contact them and get clarification, exception, etc. The same rules don't apply to everyone equally if you can make the right case. Simply displaying their content is not likely to get a pass, but having a way
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
Contacting them is your best option. Find some one to talk to, explain what you'd like to do, and how the terms restrict you, and see if you can't find a way to have an exception, clarification, or some other way around it.
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
The spirit of that is most likely: "You won't resell or grant your access to the API to other people, or allow someone else to to resell or grant access to the API." Not generally the content you're getting from the API (although you wouldn
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
Twitter does make money on its API. It's done through channel partnerships. Is it as much as advertising? No. But still significant. Twitter's API is still sufficiently open. There's plenty of data to be had. The limitations and constraints
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by dtsingletary 13y ago
This is clever. At my last startup we were building a tweet-based mechanism for buying and selling goods and services over Twitter. We'd use procedurally-generated haikus, along with unique hashtags for location. The haikus would have parti
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
Playing entirely by the rules tends to put one at a competitive disadvantage in social these days. "c. You must not incentivize users to Like any Page other than your own site or application, and any incentive you provide must be available
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
Not to be negative, and you've likely done some research here, but keep in mind the social network policies on incentivizing sharing and social actions: FB: "You must not incentivize users to use (or gate content behind the use of) Facebook
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
While you can see this data from Facebook--and yes, that's jarring-- what you're allowed to do with it is something different. You can't sell it, you can't sell it to an ad network/exchange, you can't retain it after the user revokes permis
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
Yes, it is. There are ways to build authentic engagement and attention. The only usable situation for this is for prototyping at scale: if youre software needed to stress test reading through a fan page with x number of fans or likes in ord
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
An 'ad' isn't the only activity Starbucks would post. We're in a less traditional paradigm here. Starbucks can do ad-hoc market research, community building, announce products... Lots of things. Some of the other commenters build on this f
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
I'm happy to answer questions in regards to Klout as far as I can. We utilize GNIP and Datasift both for different situations, but we're working on a different side of data than you are, it sounds. Feel free to email me at api@klout.com.
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
Singly's big offer isn't just the federation of identity and identity services/authentication (that's just a value add and a sourcepoint). It's treating content as collections of their social objects (status, photo, video, location), and be
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
When there are thousands upon thousands of 'partners' integrating their API, how does a consumer, or a business, sift through that shit and find the gems? How does Twitter even know about or be aware of apps that are either violating their
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
I understand the grammar of it, but the question is: if one implies, and you don't infer the implication-- did the implication exist? It's basically the tree falling in the forest. I've never read anything from Facebook that implies this. I
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
Where exactly is this 'implicit promise'? It's implied. Implication is in the eye of the reader/understander, not the stater/provider.
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
... Which you could them pull into a database and filter with your Regex after the API. What does the noise cost you? It's a solvable problem. true, the expanded results may keep you from getting relevant tweets due to rate limiting.
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
Thanks for mentioning the Klout API docs ( http://developer.klout.com ). They're a work in progress, but we lean heavily on Mashery's I/O Docs solution for self-documenting response and request formats. I continue to work on expanding out m
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
It actually resembles Whit.li ( http://www.whit.li/ ) a lot more than Klout.
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
Parse's portal gets a great melding of form, function, and philosophy. http://www.parse.com FullContact's portal has some nifty navigation on the documentation: http://www.fullcontact.com/developer/docs/ An honorable mention should goto
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
TweetDeck is now a Chrome-hosted app. I haven't missed any feature changes between it and the old AIR app.
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
Urban Airship. Parse.
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
I think the point you're missing is including a technical one: for a good number of users, getting a tweet history "hits the disk." The limited history is in part due to what's in memory on their servers and easiest to serve. The historic t
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by dtsingletary 14y ago
This is one of those products that seems like an obvious compliment to the "digital album", in that additional content-- interactive communication, behind-the-scenes recordings, alternate takes, and all of that goodness can accompany the ou

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