convore.json/groups/hacker-news/web-app-content-being-open-versus-closed/messages.json

[{"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302085523.0757329, "message": "The web app collects info about video media, processes/normalizes/categorizes the data and displays it. I'm wondering if it would what the general feeling about open vs closed content is.", "group_id": 95, "id": 557459}, {"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302085616.8240969, "message": "I guess I would have to be less vague", "group_id": 95, "id": 557469}, {"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302085815.419436, "message": "Would it make sense to open up the content using an API even though I'm an unknown player?", "group_id": 95, "id": 557503}, {"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302085713.434695, "message": "The idea is to collect all sorts of information related to video media e.g. context, related articles, textual information, slides, etc...", "group_id": 95, "id": 557491}, {"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302088542.064065, "message": "@martin_sunset idea phase, I have been working on this site pycon.tv for a while and it just made my mind wonder.", "group_id": 95, "id": 557840}, {"user_id": 13355, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302085918.355279, "message": "If you got data, an API always makes sense.", "group_id": 95, "id": 557516}, {"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302086552.149888, "message": "@martin_sunset interesting thanks for your suggestions. movieclips.com is quite a nice site. I'm having a look at the links you have posted", "group_id": 95, "id": 557597}, {"user_id": 26065, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302086764.0038869, "message": "embed.ly is cool, and you can actually use it both ways, on the one hand you can expose your content through it and on the other hand you can consume content that is linked to the videos you categorize", "group_id": 95, "id": 557617}, {"user_id": 26065, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302086813.875932, "message": "have you already started development or are you in the idea phase?", "group_id": 95, "id": 557627}, {"user_id": 26065, "stars": [{"date_created": 1302086435.372422, "user_id": 18347}], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302086310.060235, "message": "If you don't have an API you are not going to be a player in this game at all :P Seriously, you want to create a platform that people depend upon and build upon. Put sensible use limits on your data and offer commercial licenses if people need more (perhaps take a look at movieclips.com, probably one of your competitors). Facebook won, among other things, because of their open approach to data, same goes for twitter.", "group_id": 95, "id": 557580}, {"user_id": 26065, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302086403.274451, "message": "Take a look at mashape.com , they are establishing an API market place which might be interesting to you, and also embed.ly , they unify widget embedding", "group_id": 95, "id": 557585}, {"user_id": 26065, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302086420.3903191, "message": "should be of interest to you, damned grammar ;)", "group_id": 95, "id": 557587}, {"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302086624.462292, "message": "@martin_sunset I currently play around with embed.ly and totally see the advantage of providing an open api for the service, as it creates one hell of a dependency and obviously media servers have jumped on the boat making sure their site is supported", "group_id": 95, "id": 557603}, {"user_id": 26065, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302089620.476352, "message": "that's actually a very useful site. I wish there was a version for ruby.", "group_id": 95, "id": 557912}, {"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302088671.3435321, "message": "also I guess this topic applies to other contexts too", "group_id": 95, "id": 557869}, {"user_id": 18347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17564, "date_created": 1302090068.051034, "message": "@martin_sunset thanks :) I'm working on a new deployment with wiki and revision control, so people can add any related info: slides, etc... because for now it's pretty lean", "group_id": 95, "id": 557935}]