Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Interesting article on the intellectual property issues involved with scraping and APIs. The discussion with the Yelp guy and his discussions with Google highlight something I’m interested in. APIs are invariably for non-commercial use only, which makes them less useful, since if you actually have any success with a service built on top of other [...]

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I see that one of my alma maters has created a “Center for Entrepreneurship.” Sometimes I wish I had never heard the E word, nor had the pleasure of being taught by Robert Blunden, often referred to as “Sideshow Bob” because of his flamboyant teaching style. He somehow was capable of making even pro-forma [...]

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One of the greatest regrets I’m left with from my digg experience was that I could not blog about it.
Anyway since I’ve left digg, greatly enhancing my ability to talk about the experience, I’ve decided to try an experiment. 3 years ago today, digg was just barely launched. What I thought I’d do is [...]

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