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Comment by jeffmiller | Hacker News Reader

I'm the developer of Bitly News.

One thing I'd like to add to the site is automatic categorization of links, like on Google News. If anyone has suggestions on how to accomplish that, please comment.

I'm also struggling with intermittent 502 proxy errors on the server where Apache has problems proxying to news.arc on localhost.

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Re: categorization, would this solve your problem?

http://www.kosmix.com/corp/developer

That might work. I'll look into it - thanks.

Excellent job.

We can do that for you... http://www.newscred.com.

I'm personally very interested in this as well. Feel free to email me - shafqat at newscred dot com if you want me to put you in touch with our engineer directly.

You could look into the Open Calais API. http://viewer.opencalais.com/

Newsley uses it to categorize financial news items - http://newsley.com

I was working on a similar app but ran into issues getting enough of the twitter stream, what access to the Twitter API are you using (is this all from the gardenhose)?

Yep, just using the plain old Twitter search API via tweepy, with a search term of 'http bit.ly'.

There's an excellent chapter on automatic news article categorization in "Programming Collective Intelligence"

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321

Are you not struggling with finding "people" to talk there

alchemyapi does some basic categorization, but it can be expensive with a high volume.

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