Does anyone else here think GNIP has SERIOUS potential. The way to go for web services is real time updates. If GNIP is the central hub for that, the API producers (ie- twitter) win big time and the consumers (ie- startups who want to use twitter api) win. I'd easily pay for this.

Definitely, I'm super excited about what these guys are doing and where this might go. I think even more important than real time updates will be the ability to aggregate massive amounts of user data across different APIs, and mine it.

I completely agree. The biggest hole I've found so far is they don't have a list of current providers... am I missing something?

it should be listed on their site, front page actually. if not try to reach out to Eric, he will probably let you know.

Here ya go. Its under the API link on the top of the homepage.

http://groups.google.com/group/gnip-community/web/publishers

Ah, cheers.

Looks like they are doing what the whole "semantic web" was supposed to do but failed to do. It's not just a business; it might as well become the standard.

Concepts/Frameworks/Components used at Gnip (pulled from job posting)

    * Network Attached Memory (TerraCotta)
    * Clusters
    * Load Balancers (nginx)
    * Queuing Frameworks (SQS, ActiveMQ)
    * Amazon Web Services (Ec2, S3)
    * Polling
    * Publish/Subscribe communication models

I wonder how long will their current mainpage title stay intact... that's got to turn off some people, while I assume attract some others.

Agreed with all of the above comments completely. When I first was linked to it, it flattened me with how much sense it makes. Thinking about the amount of hours saved worldwide if gnip fulfills it's potential is mind boggling.

Gnip sounds like it could enable some cool things for the near future, but it's single-point-of-failure nature makes me nervous.

I fraking LOVE gnip. This is the first solid new biz that I've seen really enter the market in a while. A core, solid kind of business that just fundamentally makes sense. They have made the process of getting data for web apps SO easy its just crazy. Love it, love it.