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Tim Howland

6 months ago

in The lame duck ducks, redux (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Think back 7 years- what would have happened if this jackass threw his shoes at Saddam? Dismemberment, torture, his wife, children treated to a session with electric drills, summary execution of his whole town? Isn't this a part of Bush's legacy- that, hate him if you must, he has certainly brought a degree of freedom to a desperately oppressed part of the world. Assessing the cost of this freedom is probably best left to historians a few decades from now when the passions subside- but we should at least recognize that this shoe-chucker probably isn't going to get fed to the industrial shredders feet first, and we should at least respect that part of his legacy.
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sameasiteverwas Yes, it is certainly a glorious thing that this man wasn't tortured for his actions!

Oh, wait.

3 years ago

in Silicon Valley got my attention: the future of Web businesses on Scobleizer
I think there are two keys to making the system you describe above work:

1) The monetization side- which is self-evident

2) The correlation side- which is a much harder problem.

The correlation system is something that many ecommerce sites have tried to develop - and failed at. Amazon and Google are the only two that leap to mind as having correlation systems that actually work. My point here is that unless Amazon puts an API on their correlation system, it's unlikely that any minor-league service will be able to get their hands on a wide-enough dataset to be useful.

So I wonder if that's what Google Base is actually about?
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