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- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27(not affiliated with ubuntu)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23for once.
- danakin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Or it could be that he put Dapper in the title because that is what the product is called...
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -10/+16Burried as lame for use of the word "blogosphere".
- centinall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7a lot of content providers are probably not going to be too happy about this.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5As someone who does a *lot* of page scraping, this excites me greatly.
It should be interesting to see how this plays out. - jonaizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think we all know that for a story to get promoted to the home page requires a unique set of circumstances (who posts it, what time they post it, what the source is, etc.). As such, the fact that this story was reposted several times, in several ways, by several users, before getting promoted to the homepage doesn't surprise me.
Not sure what to say - dupes are lame, for sure, but in cases like this one, a really good story would never have made it to the front page without duping. - tjlsmith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I agree - I think this is revolutionary - also people complaining about a dupe - this is the first I heard of this useful thing.
- isewise, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14http://digg.com/search?s=Create+an+API+for+any+site+with+Dapper
*Quake sounds*
TRIPLE DUPE!
*Quake sounds* - ReubADoob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is a interesting turn of events I duped someone who duped themselves twice, only to be duped myself. Now finally the story gets on the frontpage. Wierd. Need to start using that "Search" button more often.
- jonaizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for all the comments so far. As some have indicated, Dapper definitely has a long way to go in terms of its interface, documentation, and general usability, but we think (and so do many of you who have tested it) that we're off to a good start. The feedback we've been getting this week has been extremely helpful. Your input as users is our best means of understanding how to improve the application to meet your needs, so don't hesitate to contact us at any time with any issue, question, or suggestion.
One of the biggest issues we have to address is the one Hagrin mentioned in his comment: content ownership. We have plans to empower content providers to use Dapper as a means of distributing their content in new and easier ways. And clearly in the coming weeks and months, we’ll provide a simple mechanism for content providers to easily stop users from accessing their content via Dapper, if that’s what they want (though, I contend that it will be everyone’s loss - the content provider and the content user).
Thanks for taking a look and, again, don't hesitate to share your thoughts with us. - hagrin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@centinall -
You're on the right track. I think the problem is going to arise between "unique" content CREATORS and those content providers who rely on other people's content. As a unique content creator and someone who has had to fight the scraper sites that were far less sophisticated that this, I am slightly worried about Dapper not providing an opt-out option for my domains and will probably take the matter into my own hands at the web server level.
However, if Dapper is EXTREMELY successful and powerful, with the right "easy to use interface", you could be looking at the new face of unique content homepages and less and less community contribution at sites such as Digg, DZone, DotNetKicks, etc. because users are generally too lazy to make those extra clicks if they can just get the content in a pre-determined filtered home page.
That being said, I wouldn't be too worried yet - the app they have created has a long way to go. - emdlc311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The idea of it isn't really unique, as mentioned above. It's simply a creating an online app for scraper configuration.
Labeling a scraper as revolutionary is a bit exaggeration. I think sites exposing this data is just slowly starting, but soon the sites that want to offer this information up, will provide an XML API for you. If they don't, someone will provide something to break these recognition algorithms. As of now, it isn't the most reliable thing, imagine if people were trying to break that.
Additionally, if a site wants to publish the data, it is much easier from within than using page scanning. So, this only solves the case when a site is lazy or does not want to share, either way, it doesn't have any productive long-term use.
Besides, doesn't Google make its living on organizing a providing aggregation tools of web content? My guess is that Google, Yahoo! or one of the other engines will be solving these problems for you already, and probably in a better way. - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- jonaizen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dapper is the Data Mapper :)
- mebob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would love to scrape data off of band and venue sites so I don't miss local show; ticket master is just annoying and isn't reliable. I tried to get it going but I guess today is not a good day to try most band only have on show or most and my fav venue's site is down. The two sites I tried it on, I wasn't able to get anything useful in 15. I'll have to give it another try tomorrow.
- puggy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4How to use blotter blogger app from dapper (dappit api) on ubuntu dapper.
- ubuntutorial, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0maybe they'll come to their senses in a few months and change the name to edgy.
- tazan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I think their definition of "any" may be different than mine.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Booya!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+02Pac RIP
- aguita, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5* UT sounds *
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(This one made it to the front page ) - Kailash.Nadh, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3I had built almost the same app months ago, but with better graphs. It could also plot the popularity of a blog over time in a +10/-10 scale on a graph. But the app's now gone with the wind :)
- CamoChris, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2I wonder whether the submitter deliberately put Dapper in the title, so people would think it was something to do with Ubuntu or Linux, and then hoped they would Digg it out of habit?
- captwnder, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0Wouldn't that make it a TRIP??? oh wait now it's a quadrupe!!!
- isewise, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4Its called searching before you submit
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