[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-11 Thread Vincent Turner
HI, Vincent Turner, here - first post so introducing myself (read 'no lurkers comment below') - SF based technology/software guy working on www.mifii.com, from Perth but spent last 10 years doing mortgage software in Sydney for previous company I started while at Uni (www.piscescommunication.com.a

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-11 Thread Dominique du Maurier
ralia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Yang Sent: Saturday, 11 June 2011 7:19 PM To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ? Lasoo is owned by Salmat I think, who does the actual prin

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2011-06-11 Thread Scott Yang
Lasoo is owned by Salmat I think, who does the actual printed catalogues for the big retailers. Therefore there is no extra effort to scan the catalogues in. http://www.lasoo.com.au/products/dynamiccatalogue.htm --Scott On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Dylan Jay wrote: > I think lassoo is usin

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2011-06-10 Thread Ali
Very good suggestions, Thanks Jeromy. On Jun 11, 3:47 pm, Jeromy Evans wrote: > On Jun 11, 2:14 pm, Ali wrote: > > > So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a > > crawler for each individual online  BigW to get their price list ? > > Sure, if you want to be a "me-too

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2011-06-10 Thread Jeromy Evans
On Jun 11, 2:14 pm, Ali wrote: > So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a > crawler for each individual online BigW to get their price list ? > Sure, if you want to be a "me-too" site. Lasso found a viable way to access the paper catalogue material. Getprice found

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2011-06-10 Thread Ali
So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a crawler for each individual online shop. On Jun 11, 12:10 pm, Jason Galea wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ali wrote: > > Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good > > examples, so you reck

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2011-06-10 Thread Ali
So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a crawler for each individual online shop. On Jun 11, 12:10 pm, Jason Galea wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ali wrote: > > Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good > > examples, so you reck

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2011-06-10 Thread Ali
So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a crawler for each individual online shop. On Jun 11, 12:10 pm, Jason Galea wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ali wrote: > > Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good > > examples, so you reck

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2011-06-10 Thread Jason Galea
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ali wrote: > Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good > examples, so you reckon they are not using crawlers but rather getting > their price lists directly from the online dealers. Does anybody have > any experience in getting data direct

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2011-06-10 Thread Purcey
I used to work for Google in the states and was surprised to see the recent announcement bringing Froogle to Australia. At least Froogle was the original product name. Now known as Google Product Search, here's a link with more details: http://googlemerchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-shopp

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2011-06-10 Thread Ali
I doubt, That is too expensive and erroneous. On Jun 11, 9:00 am, Dylan Jay wrote: > I think lassoo is using mechanical turk or OCR to scan the actual   > catalogs for specials. > > --- > Dylan Jay > Technical Solutions Manager > PretaWeb: reducing duplication in the government web. > P: +612 808

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2011-06-10 Thread Dylan Jay
I think lassoo is using mechanical turk or OCR to scan the actual catalogs for specials. --- Dylan Jay Technical Solutions Manager PretaWeb: reducing duplication in the government web. P: +612 80819071 | M: +61421477460 | twitter.com/djay75 | linkedin.com/ in/djay75 On 10/06/2011, at 10:12 P

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2011-06-10 Thread Ali
Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good examples, so you reckon they are not using crawlers but rather getting their price lists directly from the online dealers. Does anybody have any experience in getting data directly from online retailers ? Like for instance, how shou

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2011-06-09 Thread Matthew Ho
Yes, Google =p I saw a demo of Google Commerce search, and as part of this they demo'd Google Shopping back in Feb. So I'd def consider this before building your service. It looks like a getprice service. To put it crudely, it sucks in pricing data from other websites and spits it out when you se

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2011-06-09 Thread Jeromy Evans
Hi Ali, Chris Hitchen from http://www.getprice.com.au/ was/is on this list. They were a startup before being acquired by News in 2010. There's countless sites like these in the technology niches, just search for "ram price australia" to be overwhelmed with them. A challenge for you is getting co