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Re: Track Hurricanes On Stormpulse

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Post by wensing »

run4yourlives wrote: post #2

Wow, that is crazy cool. Well done.

Thanks. My friend (who is joining the Stormpulse effort) submitted this article but the site was co-founded by myself and another fellow out of Chicago. Just as a bit of background, we started collecting data for this in 2004.

Re: Track Hurricanes On Stormpulse

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Post by maxklein »

Nice work, both on getting techcrunched and on contining work on the site. And I see the site is popular, I wouldn't have thought it, considering the limited demographic.

Anyways, congrats and do milk the techcrunch traffic!

Re: Track Hurricanes On Stormpulse

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Post by wensing »

sanj wrote: post #5

Any comments on why you think you weren't accepted?

I don't know for sure. I imagine there were a number of things not working in our favor. I don't want to suggest anything unfounded, but what I can say for sure is that I wasn't willing to move to Boston/SF (I am happily married with two wonderful children and settled in West Palm Beach, FL).

Also, we did apply late, and rumor has it that late applications aren't treated as thoroughly.

Re: Track Hurricanes On Stormpulse

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Post by wensing »

maxklein wrote: post #4

Nice work, both on getting techcrunched and on contining work on the site. And I see the site is popular, I wouldn't have thought it, considering the limited demographic. Anyways, congrats and do milk the techcrunch traffic!

I grew up in South Florida, so I figured it would be popular down here. But we are blown away lately by the amount of nation-wide and international interest. TV stations in Washington state have hurricane coverage. Who'd have thought that?

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Post by jonknee »

maxklein wrote: post #4

Nice work, both on getting techcrunched and on contining work on the site. And I see the site is popular, I wouldn't have thought it, considering the limited demographic. Anyways, congrats and do milk the techcrunch traffic!

You probably don't live in hurricane country. When there is a storm bearing down it's the most important thing in the world to potentially millions of people. One of our local papers teamed up with these guys and were linking them quite a bit (perhaps in a frame, I don't remember) when Fay was coming our way. It's a handy site.

So perhaps a limited demographic, but hurricanes are huge news a few times a year and as such get a lot of mindshare.

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