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Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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post #8

http://tagger.flaptor.com - automatically suggests tags for blog posts or articles. It's still mostly a demo, we are improving it very slowly because most of our resources are going into other projects.

Kickass! When you paste the Disclaimer text into the box, it suggests "the darjeeling limited" and "potty training". The first three paragraphs of Yegge gave me "faithfulness" and "registry cleaner". Just make it work, and it will be awesome.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

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post #8

http://tagger.flaptor.com - automatically suggests tags for blog posts or articles. It's still mostly a demo, we are improving it very slowly because most of our resources are going into other projects.

Kickass! When you paste the Disclaimer text into the box, it suggests "the darjeeling limited" and "potty training". The first three paragraphs of Yegge gave me "faithfulness" and "registry cleaner". Just make it work, and it will be awesome.

Yes, it doesn't know when to shut up. It tends to work better with longer articles, we usually test it with content from Google News.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

#15
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kickass! When you paste the Disclaimer text into the box, it suggests "the darjeeling limited" and "potty training". The first three paragraphs of Yegge gave me "faithfulness" and "registry cleaner". Just make it work, and it will be awesome.

Yes, it doesn't know when to shut up. It tends to work better with longer articles, we usually test it with content from Google News.

Have you looked at work done on keyword extraction from academic literature?

http://www.nzdl.org/Kea/

It's simple and accurate.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

#18

http://free.LocalDataPlace.com - which we built for local recycling (ala freecycle). We haven't been willing to spam existing freecycle groups but we need good local traction to catch on.

We used to think Google Maps KML search would dominate this area. Now I'm not so sure.

Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

#19
post #7

http://cadmium.avecora.com/ Failed social network advertising system that targets advertisements to Facebook Application users, by profile keywords (interests, activities), age, gender, specific networks, etc. Also targets ads throughout the web in participating partner websites. Apparently no interest, and then Facebook launched Social Ads, with similar targeting features a month or so later. Was hoping to integrate…

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Re: Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

#20
post #7

http://cadmium.avecora.com/ Failed social network advertising system that targets advertisements to Facebook Application users, by profile keywords (interests, activities), age, gender, specific networks, etc. Also targets ads throughout the web in participating partner websites. Apparently no interest, and then Facebook launched Social Ads, with similar targeting features a month or so later. Was hoping to integrate…

Random curiosity: did you change your name from Steve to Mark? If it isn't personal, mind sharing why?
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