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Re:Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy you... by kenrik on Thursday February 02, 2012 @03:43PM (#3544366)
Interesting. Is this opt in on their part or are you doing some form of online stalking? I'm curious how it works the site has a very clean design. Good job.
Re:Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy you... by lukifer on Thursday February 02, 2012 @03:56PM (#3544432)
I'm curious as to how it defines identity. If handled through email or domain, I'm sure many influencers have non-public spam-catcher gmails; if done by name alone, there will be false positives due to matching names or pranks.

If I met the threshold for an influential person, this would probably make me more than a little uncomfortable, and I'd start signing up to services with fake info.

Re:Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy you... by andreisoare on Thursday February 02, 2012 @04:10PM (#3544495)
It's through email.

If you use a fake email to signup, then you probably aren't that interested in that service. We curate signups, so that only the relevant ones are displayed on the Sunnytrail dashboard.

If there's no info about an email address, then we display info about the domain.

Re:Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy you... by dtsingletary on Friday February 03, 2012 @12:54AM (#3545994)
It's not really clear when you're providing the e-mail address that it's going to be used as an index for you later. That might need to be better stated.
Re:Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy you... by andreisoare on Thursday February 02, 2012 @03:54PM (#3544414)
It's not opt in. We add context to a user based on public information about him available online. Being able to opt in is an interesting idea.