Zuzz's comments

indeed that's a common approach to spotting who copied your data in bulk but not to prevent it (or at least make it more difficult).

Thanks

thanks a lot, all good suggestions

Thanks, I certainly don't want to worry too much but, at the same time, the data is a big component of the value proposition in this case and likely what cost us more (more than the actual development of the service, for example).

So much so that we are likely to make more money by giving access to the data via API to other companies than by allowing "normal" people to search through the data and get paid a referral fee every time they click on something.

By why should we avoid the latter as an additional revenue stream? I'd rather try and make it more difficult for people to scrape it (and I don't want to ask people to accept T&C before making a search)

Thanks for the reply Paul

hi! thanks, I read that but doesn't say anything about monetisation: 1 year on any idea how you might make some money?

UPDATE: read reply above

don't get me wrong, it's great and all but... 1 year later, full-time gig, and what about money?

how is not being able to serve everyone who wants to buy one a problem?

This is a charity with a very clear goal:

"promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing"

as long as they can achieve that they are a success and not being a business means they can gladly "ignore" everyone else.

I really want one (or three) but if they are hit but astonishing demand and decide to give priority to those who will serve they overall purpose the best and not me I'm fine with it. I will not start complaining all over the interweb and accuse them of being a failure.

there you go, from the horse's mouth and fresh off the press:

"For better or worse, many people consider MongoDB and Riak to be competitors. In reality, there are very few similarities between the products."

http://seancribbs.com/tech/2011/11/07/mongodb-and-riak-in-co...

can they be used to do similar things? yes. are there overlapping use cases? indeed. Are they going to overlap more and more as time goes by and they try to expand out of their niches? absolutely.

But they fall squarely in different categories: Riak KV, MongoDB document (and HBase Column, Neo4J Graph for example)

"Being document-based datastores, Riak and CouchDB are the most direct competitors to MongoDB"

But Riak is a Key-Value store, not a document one. If that's the premise I wonder how illuminating the rest can be (I kept reading: it's not)

I understand the frustration but are we so used to instant feedback that we don't even try to resolve our issues anymore before shouting out loud about them on the interweb?

You got an email this morning, shit happens. Try to reason with them and if, and only if, that fails and you feel you are right (as you indeed are) then mount an internet campaign.

guess this is just the big names: http://neotechnology.com/customers/ but I lurk their forums and there are plenty apparently