August 2009
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SocialGreat is multi-data-source!
Bill over at Pepperlillie has been killing it. Today, we’re psyched to add Brightkite data to SocialGreat. On the All Cities tab we are mingling FourSquare and now Brightkite data to dramatically increase our sample set. Many thx to the team over at Brightkite for their awesome API and helpful pointers.
For now, we’re just doing this at the city level, but soon we’ll be...
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Hackable Business Development
People on the business side of internet software, constantly bemoan their inability to code. I’ve been guilty at times of the frequent refrain, “My kingdom for the ability to code.” However, I’ve found over the past year that the emergence of APIs coupled with eLance (or oDesk or one of the other contractor platforms) have made this expression of exasperation largely hot...
The SocialGreat Weekly
Sam has said we should do a weekly report, and I think that makes sense. However, we have a ton to do, so I thought maybe I’d just pull some highlights in an ad hoc fashion. We’re now tracking 4300+ FourSquare users across all FourSquare Cities. Soon we’ll incorporate other data sets.
The top cities of checkins continue to be: San Fran, New York, and Minneapolis. But it...
