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Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes
Romy Maxwell posted a blog piece on Craigslist apparently shutting off access to Yahoo Pipes. Maxwell was working on a project, one of 2,111 using Craigslist as a data source, for a (non-commercial) Pipes-based mashup. He sent Craig Newmark an invitation to the alpha test, after a few rounds of friendly communication — "...as a rule of thumb, okay to use RSS feeds for noncommercial purposes." The apparent response, 4 days later, was for Craigslist to redirect any request with an HTTP referrer of pipes.yahoo.com to the Craigslist home page. Maxwell writes: "It's a sad day for me. I'm not too upset about my own project, as Flippity was already removing Craigslist as a data source. With the likes of eBay and Oodle not only providing open APIs but encouraging and rewarding developers, spending my time wrestling with Craigslist is just plain stupid and exhausting. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have come to that conclusion, and I wish it were different. ... If Craigslist wants to keep its doors shut to the world, so be it."
Executive summary? Let me google that. Ahhhh. Executive summary. Something required by a pompous ass with delusions of grandeur. Such requirements are generally needed by lazy asses who can't or won't read, and are willing to burden their peers with doing the reading, thinking, and decision making, while taking all the credit for their peers work.
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Rupert Murdoch whines and complains about Google "stealing" traffic by bundling his content/data to work in different ways: Slashdotters get up in arms, saying he's "missing the point" or is somehow mentally defective and pushing a failed business model.
Craig Newmark shuts out Yahoo for unstated reasons: Slashdotters support him and think he's doing a great job, and should keep preventing other people from building apps that bundle his content/data to work in different ways.
Ah Slashdot, is there anything you can't be hypocritical about?
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as an avid user of craigslist i think you are being pretty bitchy,
As an avid user of Slashdot, I think you are a fucking tool.
all you have to do is click on your state/neighboring states and look in the categories of things you interested in
Well, I interested in different things at differing times. But search is split up by region, and it's not at all clear which regions are close to which other regions from the listings. If I'm going to be traveling someplace, it would also be nice to be able to check for the things I want in all the regions along my path, which gets even more complex. I live in California, where there are lots of towns because there are lots of people because there is lots of demand for the land.
really its not all that hard, I do it all the time, takes like maybe a minute longer than a dedicated search
Visiting each region and pasting the search terms is tedious and stupid. Computers exist to help us do stupid things faster, not to create more stupidity.
and holds much truer to the original intent of craigslist
What, to waste my time?
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