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18 Jul 08

Gnip: We got $h*t to pop

    • Today, 3rd party data consumption means...
      • API throttling & high latency
      • Competing protocols
      • One-off data integrations
      • Identity discovery challenges
      • More grunt work than any of us like to do

      None of these issues are insurmountable, most are not even complicated. They're hassles. An exponentially growing set of hassles that distract you from the features of your service that your users actually care about. Gnip is here to help. We make it easy to aggregate user data so that you can focus on doing something cool with it. Here's our API.
17 May 08

Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden

  • The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves. And their three new products, Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and Friend Connect, are all designed to further that goal.
  • Let me put this another way. How dare Facebook tell ME that I cannot give Google access to this data!
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