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Archives for October 14, 2005

Frapper.. another sweet Google Mashup for Social Networking

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Frapper.. another sweet Google Mashup for Social Networking
Originally uploaded by GISuser.com.

Today I stumbled onto another sweet Google mashup… Frapper

(http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/) What a cool mashup! The idea is

a friends + mapper site that results in a frapper group. This concept

takes social networking to a new level, enabling users to create a new

group (aka. frapper) allow people to join and then they can shout out!

Check it out, it’s very cool. I’ve created the GISuser frapper.. feel

free to sign up and shout out. See

http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/gisuser

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Public vs Private sector absenteeism

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Slightly off topic but this always gets me going… numbers out of Stats Canada have revealed the following information concerning absenteeism rates in Canada. On average, public sector employees take 9.7 sick days per year whereas private sector employees take on avg. 7 days per year. In Saskatchewan alone, the cost of sick days runs at more than $18 million per year!  So… why do government employees get sick more??? Likely they don’t, they merely are allowed to call in more frequently. Also, the right to sick days is likely thought of as a right and thus is taken advantage of. Interesting stuff…
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Craig’s List Wants "Scraping" to Stop

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Looks like the battle over scraping is now getting heated up. FYI, scraping, is the practice of basically “site eating” someone else’s hard earned data in order to developer your own application based on their data… essentially, thinking of it as ripping off someone else’s data! According to this blog (http://battellemedia.com/archives/001930.php) Craig’s List has asked that oodle (http://www.oodle.com/) stop scraping their data and quite frankly, you can’t blame Craig’s list at all.. check out Oodle… they are merely re-packaging Craig’s list and other classifieds for their own self-serving profit! Go get em Craig! No doubt the whole issue of scraping is going to be huge moving forward, particularly as google mashups, map hacking and other practices are based primarily on scraping other DBs… keep in mind though, many very useful hacks are based on publicly available data sources and thus are fair game and a welcome addition.
 
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Craig’s List Wants "Scraping" to Stop

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Looks like the battle over scraping is now getting heated up. FYI, scraping, is the practice of basically “site eating” someone else’s hard earned data in order to developer your own application based on their data… essentially, thinking of it as ripping off someone else’s data! According to this blog (http://battellemedia.com/archives/001930.php) Craig’s List has asked that oodle (http://www.oodle.com/) stop scraping their data and quite frankly, you can’t blame Craig’s list at all.. check out Oodle… they are merely re-packaging Craig’s list and other classifieds for their own self-serving profit! Go get em Craig! No doubt the whole issue of scraping is going to be huge moving forward, particularly as google mashups, map hacking and other practices are based primarily on scraping other DBs… keep in mind though, many very useful hacks are based on publicly available data sources and thus are fair game and a welcome addition.
 
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