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At Singly, we raised about $9mm of VC with 100% of our code open source. We saw that as absolutely essential in creating an ecosystem and it was a huge benefit in reducing customer…

:). It's not really a separate pipe, its's simply the bits of information that tell the dumb pipe where/how to run. For example, the Google Docs connector knows generically how to …

We are also struggling with the word Context. The thought was "a Connector is a dumb pipe and it needs a Context in which to run" (e.g. the auth credentials, etc.). Not perfect, an…

I think the statistical importance is by far the most interesting feature. Our inboxes are really priority queues, but we are currently spending a great deal of time and energy doi…

Frankly, it seems hard to imagine NOT needing search beyond email. I really only user a handful of web services (I'm sure that number is only increasing) and I can barely remember …

Greplin does sounds interesting. I actually applied with essentially the same idea - cloud data indexing and search. Check it out and let me know if you want a beta invite: www.nut…