screeley | 9 years ago | on: Medium acquires Embedly (YC W10)
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screeley | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Monitor the Downtime of 170+ Popular Web APIs
One addition I would add would be to actually link to the service or their status page. If you are going to call them out if their service is down, at least give them something in return, i.e. discovery.
screeley | 13 years ago | on: Instagram vs Twitter: A Solution
Yes, you can do that. Anyone successfully done this?
screeley | 13 years ago | on: The Rise of "Gangnam Style" - Embedly Stats
Truth. It's a Posterous blog, so I guess we are a little late it switching off them. Here's another cached version that's a little easier to read:
http://embed.ly/docs/explore/article?url=blog.embed.ly/embed...
screeley | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: I keep wondering how embed.ly handles rate limits
It's becoming more of an issue now that we are growing.
We have had conversations with the YouTube guys about this and they have asked us to use API's instead of directly scrapping pages.
Quora is currently rate limiting us a ton as well. We again have to directly reach out to them.
Most oEmbed endpoints aren't rate limited because they are generally not resource intensive. They are also meant to be used client side and therefore expect more traffic.
Embedly also does a fair amount of caching that reduces the number of calls that we have to make. This limits us, because we aren't a straight pass through, but helps us handle spikes of traffic.
screeley | 14 years ago | on: Embedly Challenge Results
Updated accordingly. We used floats instead of ints which means that it should have been 21 not 22.
screeley | 14 years ago | on: Introducing jQuery Preview. A new plugin from Embedly.
Not seeing it, but I believe you. Can you be a little more specific?
screeley | 15 years ago | on: Fred Wilson invented Embedly: How we got a Y Combinator interview
We all need to give hat tips to the people that inspired us to be greater and try new things. We would not be here right now without Fred. I'll put his name in titles all day long just to adknowledge his contributions.
screeley | 15 years ago | on: Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link
api.embed.ly will remain free, but it is a community resource. If someone is abusing it we will ask them to move over to Pro as to not effect the other users. We have not had to ask anyone to move over and don't see it happening in the near future.
It's in our Terms of Service: http://api.embed.ly/terms
screeley | 15 years ago | on: Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link
Interesting, I guess we are doing it wrong. I see what you are saying about skimlinks, we have received this advice in the past. It's just not something we are looking into now.
We might be up for a commission based remote worker. :)
screeley | 15 years ago | on: Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link
Have you ever tried to make money on affilate links? In all honesty we make next to nothing from affiliating Amazon links. It's not even close to a viable business, we only do it because we don't like leaving money on the table.
screeley | 15 years ago | on: Embedly Pro Lets Your App Embed Content From Any Link
Sorry, that's a bug. If the tag is there we should leave it and not add our own.
We will work on fixing that.
screeley | 15 years ago | on: RSS isn't dead it just needs to be repurposed.
I see where you are coming from. Our thinking was that RSS was not designed to create an embed from a url, but for feed syndication in a standard format. This is definitely "repurposing" a standard format into an oEmbed type response for embedding.
screeley | 15 years ago | on: An Open Letter to TwitPic
All better. TwitPic made changes to whitelist Embedly. http://blog.embed.ly/twitpic
screeley | 16 years ago | on: 101 ways to Embed Content: The State of Embedly
Now wouldn't that be awful. We gain your trust, lure you in and then pull the old bait and switch.
That's is not going to happen. As the post states:
> As we continue to grow we will start having product offerings as well as additional APIs.
screeley | 16 years ago | on: Nowmov (YC W10): Sit Back, Relax, And Watch An Endless Stream of Videos
I just lost another 15 minutes of my life to NowMov. So addicting.
screeley | 16 years ago | on: Embedly (YC W10): A Call for Publishers
Demos are now at the bottom of the post. Thanks
screeley | 16 years ago | on: Embedly (YC W10): A Call for Publishers
We added examples to the Post. Thanks.
screeley | 16 years ago | on: Findpit.com: Building a Twitter Image Search with Embedly and jQuery.
Twitter seems to be having search issues with OR statements and filters. They are only returning a limited amount of results. I'll update when it's worked out.
screeley | 16 years ago | on: Now this is how you pitch your product to an open source company
You're welcome. A lot of credit has to go to Chris and the Reddit guys. They were awesome. One phone call, some code, a few emails and it was done.
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We were profitable and growing.
Good comment though.