SeatGeek forecasts the price of sports or concert tickets.
So before buying tickets to an event, you can check SeatGeek for a price forecast.
If the price is going up, you’ll want to buy your tickets right away. SeatGeek makes that easy by pulling together the best deals we find from the biggest ticket online ticket markets. If the price is going down, you may want to wait to buy till the price reaches rock-bottom. SeatGeek makes this simple–just sign up for an email alert, and we’ll send you an email when it’s the best time to buy. Easy, huh?
SeatGeek is a free tool that saves you money. By telling you when prices are lowest, we make it cheaper for you to go to games and concerts.
SeatGeek has built a database of millions of historical ticket transactions. We crunch all this data in an algorithm, which spits out price forecasts. For each sale, we also consider other factors that influence whether prices go up or down. For example, for baseball tickets, we take into account things like the team’s records, whether the teams are in a playoff race, the weather, the venue, the price of the seat, the pitchers, and many, many other factors.
SeatGeek’s technology is patent-pending and was built with the aid of several PhDs on our team. It performs well on out-of-sample tests of accuracy. Our algorithm is self-training, so the accuracy of its forecast improves every day.
Collecta, the streaming real-time search company that has been accelerating the pace of Internet search, announced that its new Site Search Platform is powering real-time search for Identi.ca, an open-source micro-blogging service. Through Collecta’s technology, Identi.ca users can keep pace with the real-time comments, trends, and news coursing through the social network every minute.
Through real-time search, Identi.ca users can track reactions and discussions on the latest NBA trade, breaking news about health care reform, or any other topic or area of interest. Everyone can see Collecta’s site search in action on Identi.ca by visiting http://search.identi.ca to search the social network.
Collecta’s XMPP-based platform shoots information to users the instant it is published. As a result, users have the power to view a continuously updating stream of results without having to hit refresh or restart their query.
“Real-time search is a window into the heart of the social network. It reveals the vibrancy of the network, community, and conversations to both users and outside observers,” said Collecta CEO Gerry Campbell. “Through streaming search, users see a deeper, more complex view of what’s taking place on both that social network and in the world right now.”
“We’ve been working with Collecta since before they launched to make Identi.ca data more accessible to everyone. We’re happy to be able to use the same platform to bring the real-time search experience back to our own users” said Identi.ca and StatusNet founder Evan Prodromou.
“Collecta’s Site Search Platform allows publishers and social networks to transform their own content and data. The result is not a static set of results, but a live view into their flow of activity” Collecta CTO, Jack Moffitt commented.
The Collecta Site Search Platform is now available, enabling any social network, news publisher, sports or entertainment site to implement real-time search and provide the same level of accessibility and transparency for their site and users.
The web offers a world of quality videos for our enjoyment and enlightenment. However, for a large population of Internet users* who are unable to hear, understand, or enable the audio content of videos, finding ones to watch can be a pain.
Captioned and subtitled videos are an answer; however, they are generally scattered and/or mixed with all other videos across the Internet. Up until now, there was no central place to easily and reliably search for and discover such videos across multiple video hosts. 22frames was built, in part, to provide such a place. In turn, an additionally important goal is to drive significant traffic to caption/subtitle friendly video hosts and creators.
By continually indexing videos from these multiple hosts, this site offers an increasingly comprehensive catalog covering many different topics. Indexing is mostly automated using APIs and specialized web crawlers. User submissions of videos and channels also play an important role.
22frames is more than captions.
Captioned videos are not the only kinds of videos that are easy to watch without audio. Take a look at these diverse examples without listening to them:
There is such a considerable number of quality videos like the above being posted on popular link-sharing and community sites that we include them in our search results when relevant. On the right of this and other pages, you can even find links for viewing videos and reading comments shared on sites like Digg and Reddit. 22frames also links to captioned versions of videos shared on such sites as they are discovered.
If you have/run such a site and you would like to integrate our accessibility features with it, contact us. Members of your site can use these features to avoid mining through pages of community submissions to specifically find videos that are easy to watch without audio.
Including these special types of non-captioned videos is pretty experimental, but it makes sense not to ignore them in a service like this. To include these videos in your search results, make sure to choose this option. To omit them, choose the caption-only option .
You can imagine that a big challenge in supporting this unique feature is how to automatically detect and index videos without having a human listen to each one. There are just too many videos and several are being produced daily.
Without getting into too much techie jargon, we can say that our current approach mainly involves some clever coding and training of a multimedia analysis platform called Infinite Ears. We currently support this specific feature on Youtube videos, and we will move to other hosts as more improvements are made.
Please help us flag videos that do not fit so we can speed up these improvements.
22frames is in very early beta right now, and there is much more work to do for our small team. For example, there are certain kinds of captioned / subtitled videos that other engines do not detect because the words are ingrained in the actual picture of the video rather than being separately uploaded overlay text. We are working on improving the rate we index such videos since the captioned/subtitled videos on many hosts are made this way. As our backend technology matures, we also plan to spend more time improving the user-experience side of things. Finally, we welcome your contributions. You can donate, suggest videos, and / or email us if you have any interesting ideas.
When this site was nothing more than idea, someone said it would be “a kind of Silent Film 2.0.” This comment, in fact, led to the name 22frames. FYI: During the silent film era, films were often shot at rates anywhere between 16 and 23 frames per second. 22 sounded the coolest to us, and here we are!
Caution: This video is not for children. It is for wolf lovers only!
* The World Health Organization estimates 278 million people worldwide
have some form of hearing impairment. There are approximately 30
million deaf or hard of hearing Americans and 80 million baby boomers
with possible hearing loss. On our about us page ( http://www.22frames.com/aboutus.aspx ), you will see that
22frames.com has potential use-cases for non-deaf users. To
illustrate, a Nielsen study suggests that most video watching is done
during work hours, and workplace computers are often muted or have no
speakers.
Is a car right for you?
OpinionAuto helps you to find the answer.
OpinionAuto aggregates the car owners’ opinions and reviews. Thanks to a clear and simple interface, you can navigate througth the user reviews, and check out whether a car is really good for your needs.
OpinionAuto is a search engine for car user reviews. Currently, the following sources are indexed:
* AOL Autos
* Autobytel
* CarGurus.com
* CarSurvey.org
* Drive
* Epinions
* MSN Autos
* New Car Net
* Yahoo Autos
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