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Scraping data and API’s
was wondering how easy it would be to build a generic approach to opening up API’s on web sites who didnt formally publish them and then last night I saw this post about scrAPI’s. Great stuff — would...
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I am playing around with Dave Winer’s OPML sharing platform and loving it. You can see my OPML file listed or more interestingly you can see other people who have subscriptions like mine (you have to...
View ArticleMachinima, Halo, Google Earth and what film could look like by 2010
Machinima is starting to get more and more interesting as a media form. See this wonderful intereview with Malcolm Maclaren — a walk in the park with punks impresario. Or this commmentary on net...
View ArticleGrouper and sharing / organizing personal media
Just read Cringley’s piece about Grouper, its surprisingly thin. The purchase is about a research — Lynton made that clear in his statement – but with no brand its going to be hard to extend it beyond...
View ArticleGmail Just Got Perfect?
"Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect Google quietly added a small feature to Gmail this week called Mail Fetcher. When that feature launched, Gmail became perfect." gmail perfect?...
View ArticleThings to watch in 2007
7 4 07 (things to watch in 07) 1. Google will feel the tension between search and browse and their associated business models. Google quick check-out will emerge as the companies key innovation beyond...
View ArticleChoice, end to end control, distributed innovation and that iphone thing
A lot of chatter about the iphone — just read Dave Winer's piece — lots of conspiracy theories about how real the Job's demo was and people are starting to focus on the question of how closed the...
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F8 and that Telegraph road
The launch last week of Facebook's platform initiative, F8, has generated a lot of talk, much of it in the mainstream press. Its a compelling story, Facebook is becoming a platform, out maneuvering...
View ArticleSwitching bits
Betaworks is starting to roll out SwitchAbit, our first homegrown product. SwitchAbit is a content router. A switchboard to connect one service to another. It will let people shuttle a flickr to...
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Dimensionalizing the web
What is a web page today? If you look at the average web page, it’s a compilation of a diverse set of data sources drawn into a construct that we think of as a concrete whole. It probably started with...
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bit.ly a simple, professional URL shortener
We launched bit.ly yesterday and got an intense amount of buzz and attention. We thought this was an important piece of the puzzle but didn’t fully appreciate the vacuum that we were running into. A...
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Summize growth
Summize organic traffic growth, week over week. Its astounding to see the Summize business grow from 0 to 14M queries a week in over the space of two months (note I updated the chart with the past...
View Articlefiref.ly goes public beta
We are pushing firef.ly into a public beta today. Exciting stuff for us here at betaworks. Firef.ly is a light weight messaging layer that sits on top of a site — permitting a real time perspective...
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Keep it Chunky, Sticky in 1996
Fred Wilson’s keynote this week at the Web 2.0 conference will be interesting. He is doing a review of the history of the internet business in New York, the slides are posted here. History is something...
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An experiment in Microfunding and new forms of giving
Late last week we kicked off a drive to raise $25,000 for http://www.charitywater.org/ — a non-profit that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. We launched this over...
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Creative destruction … Google slayed by the Notificator?
The web has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to evolve and leave embedded franchises struggling or in the dirt. Prodigy, AOL were early candidates. Today Yahoo and Ebay are struggling, and I...
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bit.ly now
We have had a lot going on at bit.ly over the past few weeks — some highlights — starting with some data. • bit.ly is now encoding (creating) over 10m URL’s or links a week now — not too shabby for a...
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Distribution … now
In February 1948, Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to address hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens packed into Old Town Square. It was...
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What can homescreens tell us about the way people use their phones.
At betaworks we aim to build apps that people love: the essential apps that people use every day and that they obsessively want to have on the homescreen of their devices, one touch away. Yet,...
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