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othman

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About othman

Othman Laraki is Twitter's Vice President for Growth, International and Revenue. Prior to Twitter, Othman cofounded MixerLabs (creator of GeoAPI), which got acquired by Twitter. Before that, he was at Google, where he led several products, including performance efforts, the Google Toolbar, Google Gears and early Firefox extensions.

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    Comment #17183734

    Building on decades of insights from the information retrieval world, and using highly-scalable, battle-tested open source packages, we’ve found it invaluable for exploring genetic…

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    Objectives-Constrained Design - not Capacity-Constrained Design

    A recent blog post I made - thought this would be interesting to (or resonate with) the YC audience :)

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    Comment #939265

    BTW, there are also a number of other differences - below is a quick list: - Type of data: One of things we do is combine a number of different datasets (16+ M businesses, points o…

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    Comment #939216

    In the werks :)

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    Comment #939214

    Hi - it's actually quite different. As of now, we don't (yet) have a forward geocoding api exposed. Rather, most of the API functionality that's live is for backward geocoding. As …

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    Comment #939208

    There will always be a free plan with a relatively reasonable volume - at minimum, it will always be a 'fremium' kind of thing. At which point we start charging is, frankly, to ens…

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    Comment #939200

    As you might guess, the ownership over the data is a tricky issue, where there are many variables that aren't under our control. Our objective is to make the information as open as…

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    Comment #939062

    Right now the model is free. We limit it to 20K hits per day. If you need more than that, ping us and we can help out (api at geoapi.com)