Dear all who have shown interest in this thread,
I have been wondering what makes this case different from using the popular
comparison engines on yahoo, google, etc?
Coz basically they all allow you to open an account with them, maintain a cart
of products you sell on their engine, and then your items will get listed when
folks do a product search.
Also I was wondering if we could turn this into a forum instead of a mailing
list, you guys am sure should be having space on your servers that we could use.
Thanks.
Quoting Samuel Otaala <[email protected]>:
> I think it's best to just start a website, and publish available
> pricing. You can leave a blank next to ISPs who don't publish, but we
> should be haveing credible users who know how much they pay for their
> particular package. That data will be included. The ISPs are free to
> make corrections where they feel misrepresented, but at least an
> initial listy is a good start.
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:12 PM, David M. Gullever
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> How about "name & shame" on the lug website - "this isp won't publish his
>> prices". Negative publicity can work wonders. Just a thought
>>
>> DMG
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Simon Vass
>> Sent: 21 March 2012 19:16
>> To: Uganda Linux User Group
>> Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: UG-Broadband/Wimax competitors and pricing
>>
>> I think the idea was to crowd source the data, and also allow ISP's to edit
>> there prices to give an official price, but you would need to first seed the
>> site with some data which as Reinier said might be easier just going to the
>> ISP's in turn or ringing them up, not sure how many might respond to an
>> online questionnaire/email?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Simon Vass
>> Managing Director
>> E-Tech Uganda Ltd
>>
>> http://www.etech.ug
>> Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621
>> email: [email protected]
>> skype: e-techservicedesk
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Reinier Battenberg" <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: "Uganda Linux User Group" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 7:09:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: UG-Broadband/Wimax competitors and pricing
>>
>>
>> as isps dont publish their prices online, we did it the old fashioned way,
>> and
>> actually went to a fysical office to ask.
>>
>> that is expensive and it didnt work.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday 21 March 2012 02:07:38 [email protected]
>> wrote:
>>> 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
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>> --
>> rgds,
>>
>> Reinier Battenberg
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