Hi Reinier,
the idea is interesting, but i have a few questions below.
@and we did a very weak attempt to collect data (which is the most work)
How were you piping the data into your comparison engine, coz i was looking at
the possibilities below:
SOA - once your comparison engine is published as a web service, then you can
convince clients to connect to your web service with data in a specific format,
so it can be compared.
Gathering the data through an RSS feed - this means the comparison engine needs
to be able to parse the RSS data and if you have different incompatible RSS
feeds, then it could present issues i think.
Reading directly from the publishers websites - this could be possible, but
would require search engine heuristics
Thanks.
Quoting Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]>:
>
> and we did a very weak attempt to collect data (which is the most work)
>
> When a sales lady at one of the ISPs refused to give us pricing if we didnt
> want to buy a simcard, i got too demotivated to pursue it.
>
> But, yeah, its still a great idea.
>
> (little fact: the 13 year old guy who set this up in NL made millions when he
> sold the site. (it had a telecom subscription compare functionality too))
>
> rgds,
> reinier
>
> On Tuesday 20 March 2012 15:00:17 McTim wrote:
>> On 3/20/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > No but this week I have again been thinking of an idea someone had to
>> > build a Internet comparator website for Uganda. McTim any objections if
>> > someone runs with this idea?
>>
>> none, I handed off that project to Reiner when i moved to KE!
>>
>> > Even a google document with public access might be a good thing.
>>
>> great idea!
> --
> rgds,
>
> Reinier Battenberg
> Director
> Mountbatten Ltd.
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