Lots of people in the valley are trying to work this out themselves. I think the challenge right now is product ideas. Don't give up too quicky - this an interesting field right now. (Actually I'm spending my spare thoughts this weekend to advise a valley entrepreneur on product ideas - he's already got the technology bit sorted.)
Sent from my iPhone On 30/05/2009, at 6:09 PM, Samuel Bishop <lucract...@mac.com> wrote: > Im not the sort to plug my ideas like this but, I would be foolish > to think i could manage this alone. > > I've been working on a twitter app & running into their API > limitations (unable to search for many specific characters in their > search api despite supporting unicode in tweets) has me wanting to > branch off direction and start building my own tweet index to search > my own way to get what i want. However this is a much tougher problem. > > Search is one of those fields that requires math, lots of math. And > an handling a index thats adding 5k or more unique items a minute > will require very careful consider before it will work well. > I'm not sure i can get past this hurdle despite having the skills to > gather the data. > > Real time search is one thing I've noticed has everyone rather > interested. I suppose what I'm looking at doing is more of a long > tail search/trending sort of thing, however the technology would be > just as applicable to real time search by just restricting the > search to items from a recent time period. > > If anyone is curious, interested, etc and thinks its worth pursuing > or wants to help. Let me know. > Otherwise its probably going on the shelf with the 'cant do this by > myself' and 'no one around to help' tags attached. > > Regards > Samuel > > > > On 30/05/2009, at 7:48 AM, Warren Seen wrote: > >>> >>> 1: Telstra will do what you pay for. Its the housing estate/suburb >>> developers that really make the decisions about how future proof it >>> all becomes. >> >> From July next year, (assuming NBN legislation passes) all >> greenfield estates will be required by law to install FTTP >> networks. So very soon that decision (which for most estates comes >> down to economics) will be out of the developers' hands. >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/99938a0fbc691eeb To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
