bluelu


9 points by bluelu about 1 month ago | link | top
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I wonder if it's agreable to work in an office which is filled with fog and only has a limited number of light beams through that fog.

9 points by bluelu 7 months ago | link | parent | top
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I could always access the site without any problems and didn't see any issues.

7 points by bluelu 7 months ago | link | top
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Even if you master a programming language and have no clue about algorithms, it won't work.

7 points by bluelu 3 months ago | link
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Hi,

We are launching our Blog Search Engine today in private beta and I would be very happy if some of the hacker news readers could give us some valuable feedback. You can access our site under http://www.iterend.com/?ref=hn (the link will work for the first 1000 users and you have to use this link first before the other links below will work!).

So what differentiates us from other blog search engines: (e.g google blog search, technorati, twingly, etc...)

We want you to be able to actively discover the most recent, most discussed and most important articles of the blogosphere. Iterend gives you an overview of the information you are looking for, where you are then able to drill down into the different categories of interest related to that information.

* We display an overview of what is currently being discussed in the blogosphere, so that you are able to dive into the different areas you are interested in.

* All articles are linked to structured wikipedia information, which makes it possible to search by categories. (eg. http://blogs.iterend.com/en/?query=category%3A"Swimmer"+category%3A"Medalist"&date=alltime)

* Search results are clustered and you can search on sentence level, post level or blog level.

* Next to the search results, relevant phrases and categories are displayed, so you are able to restrict your search or get an overview over the information you are looking for. (eg. http://blogs.iterend.com/en/?query=techcrunch&date=alltime)

* You can search for related posts to a given topic, url or cluster (eg. http://blogs.iterend.com/en/?query=related%3A"iphone"&date=alltime)

At the moment, about 50 000 mainstream english blogs are indexed. The number of indexed blogs will be increased soon, while we will still focus on the mainstream (and hopefully spam free) blogs. We will add support to search in additional languages in the future as well.

We also offer an Api for application developers wishing to use parts of our service in their applications.

I will be very thankful for all of your comments! If someone wants to create an application out of our api (related phrases, categories, or the related search future), that would be great!


7 points by bluelu 9 months ago | link | top
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I'm so happy I didn't have a computer when I was 12. When you are young, there are so much more interesing things than computers to explore!

6 points by bluelu 7 months ago | link | top
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I wonder if a virtual machine is being started? How do I make sure no harmful code is executed on my machine?

6 points by bluelu about 1 month ago | link | parent | top
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The reactions are typical US behavior. People will rate you because of the one thing you did wrong and not even take into account the years before, where you did a perfect job. (Think about President Clinton and the Lewinski affaire...).

6 points by bluelu 8 months ago | link | parent | top
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Facebook's system is also 1000x times more complicated than twitter's simple message passing system!

5 points by bluelu 6 months ago | link | parent | top
cached 21 days ago
In my opinion they were simply running out of money and have no business model whatsoever.

100 Million is still a lot of money for something that only searches wikipedia.

With 100 million $ you could hire some of the brigthest engineers around the world and build this in less in a year.


5 points by bluelu 7 months ago | link | parent | top
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So what's the difference to paypal then? If you ahve to cashout to paypal, why not add a donate paypal button at your website instead of te tipjoy button.