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Sites like Flowtown and Rapportive: How do they work?

Hi,

Sites like flowtown and rapportive are getting more and more popular. Basically they take an email and return all the social media sites attached to it. Are they just grabbing the info through the API from each individual site (which seems time consuming setting it up for each one) or is there something else?

Thanks

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good question. I am thinking about this as well. Have you got any thoughts? My guess is that it seems that they are using quite a bit of APIs in order to gather that much information.

what are your thoughts?

DjangoRocks  2010-09-02 06:25:46
There really doesn't seem like another way...
tshauck  2010-09-02 19:46:24
yes that's true. But even if we try to use most of the APIs on the Internet, it will still be technically challenging.For instance, how do we infer the first name, last name of a user based on results from multiple APIs.You interested in this idea?
DjangoRocks  2010-09-02 23:53:01
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We use Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Dan Martell  2010-09-10 00:11:52
Could you elaborate a bit?
tshauck  2010-09-11 23:22:13

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