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Chez Terry
Personal blog · fluidinfo.com/terrystartupsprogramming
Chez Terry is a personal blog at fluidinfo.com about startups and programming. Since 2008, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fluidinfo, the home of FluidDB, as an earlier example of a shared, open database of facts. Comments mention it when discussing structured data sharing and similar data projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-12-08
- A few comments on pandemic influenza2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-26
What Hacker News says?
Documents -> People -> Places -> Objects. What's next? You should check out FluidDB from the FluidInfo guys... http://fluidinfo.com/
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on “Google Goggles”Submitted A few comments on pandemic influenza as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSounds a bit like what http://fluidinfo.com/ wanted to do originally.
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on “Show HN: TheBigDB - A simpler open database of facts”Submitted OK, it’s a pandemic. Now what? as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI’ll have a closer look at Pagebox.es Long time ago, I mused¹ about these kind of things, then worked like mad on devising an implementation. Meanwhile, a side project I’ll take up again, one day. I love the idea of data blogging. Thinking more along the lines of what Freebase was doing (before Google smothered it), what Fluidinfo² originally intended to do, and what Silk³ seems to be doing best, right now. ¹ http:/…
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on “Ask HN: Idea Sunday”Submitted Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI dare you to find me an example of someone so shamelessly, transparently looking to profit off of the hypothetical suffering of others. EDIT: OK, I guess it wasn't clear why I find this hysterical. I'll explain how I see it. (As background, my job previous to starting Dawdle was as the junior member of the investment team at Ascension Health Ventures, a health care VC fund. I know a little something about how this…
Comment linking /terry/2009/04/26/a-few-comments-on-pandemic-influenza/
on “Wikipedia: The 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak”Submitted FluidDB domain names available early and free for Twitter users as a story · 7 points
HN discussionsounds like a good application for Fluidinfo: http://www.fluidinfo.com/about/ if they made it a bit more accessible, scientists could potentially share some of their data, and new research could associate their related findings with the original data.
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on “Dumped on by Data: Scientists Say a Deluge is Drowning Research”Submitted Not alone: how fluidinfo is organised as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://www.fluidinfo.com/
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on “Ask HN: What start up would you invest in ?”Submitted Expecting and embracing startup rejection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Passion and the creation of highly non-uniform value as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embracing Encapsulation [high-level vs. low-level programming] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Balcony music as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The power of representation: Adding powers of two as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brief history of an idea as a story · 1 points
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