KillerStartups, or rather its overarching company Startups.com Networks, has been in the news lately. First, they picked up Startups.com in a killer deal, next thing you know they’re launching their own web applications (Twingr). Now, they’re introducing the strangely named but quite useful Dataopedia, which is meant to serve as an information resource for websites.
It’s actually very useful, even if the idea isn’t exactly new (Quarkbase, for example, is very similar if not exactly alike). Just as you would use our own Crunchbase for information about companies, Dataopedia gives you a run-down of all the data it can find about a website you provide an URL for (including Crunchbase data, in fact). The web service aggregates data from dozens of sources in combination with a number of public APIs.
It’s valuable to have all this information in one place, and it’s plenty: expect data about traffic (arguably from the poorest source available, Alexa, although there are embedded graphs from Compete and Quantcast too), screenshots, names of people involved, WHOIS information, Google PageRank, multimedia links and embeds, jobs, office locations, and so on.
The web service comes with a nice set of features that make it easy for you to fetch data the way you choose. Send a website URL to a custom e-mail address and you’ll receive a reply in HTML format with all the information about that website. Browsing on a smartphone? Dataopedia has mobile versions that can be consulted with most devices. Firefox user? Get the bookmarklet, add a custom searchbox or install the add-on (coming soon). And my personal favorite: send a Twitter message to @dataopedia with a URL and you’ll get a tweet back with a link to the appropriate Dataopedia entry.
Dataopedia, you’ve got yourself a fan.
This seems like a useful website. I saw some weird behaviour. It adds www to the beginning of every URL. In case a website does not support this it shows an error page. I tried a few and saw this on the http://weather.aol.com
But still it really interesting to read about all the sites.
If you liked Dataopedia.com, check this out http://digg.com...e_Website_Stats
that is a horrendous domain. though they do sometimes know what there talking about.
http://www.kill...locator-network
its kool and awesome ..love it! the twitter part is also gr8 move
Warning: simplexml_load_file(http://api.compete.com/fast-cgi/MI?d=amitbhawani.com&ver=3&apikey=bmnss4hw8uvdzxrs6zdwqy24)
May be some heavy use is causing these errors, tried them at http://dataoped...amitbhawani-com
Oh no, you listed their api key, lol. They’ll have to change that one now.
For my SEO job I do use http://www.quarkbase.com frequently and its good. Whereas, dataopedia looks like a shameless copy of quarkbase and I still find less content there.
Probably you use that for your job, since your job IS at that company.
Keep on working. And quit trashing the big guys.
I’m pretty sure they outsourced it to India or Russia and told them: “We would like a website that takes information about a URL from other website and aggregates them”
Then they said “OK sir we understand what you would like and are confidents we can do it outstanding. Which features would you like? We fully suuport data transport protocols.”
Then KillerStartUps said: “Look, just make a site exactly like this: [QuarksBase]”
“make a site exa: [quarkbase]”
What they got was really shotty. I typed in “http://www.google.com” and got, well, see for yourself: http://dataoped.../www-google-com
Ok, ask for a URL, but fail with “http://”. Also, randomly fail and show your API key. That’s cool too. And when I click “report adult” for an image thumbnail, I get this gem of a message: “Thank your!
We are going to evaluate your suggest.”
Um… ok.
These guys are on to something but they’re doing it wrong, and hopefully will continue on their paths for a few months while I crush them with my upcoming application.
There are already a number of sites that do this.
The website loads very slow, it seems that they do not cache data at all. As a matter of fact, I have already seen an error in which their compete.com API code is listed in plain text..
PHP.ini -> show_errors = 0
+1
Its a duplicate copy of http://www.quarkbase.com
Very, very, very, very, very, very similar.
That looks extremely similar indeed, updated the post.
looks extremely similar ..in other words…copycat or not ?
it will be gr8 if you explain extremely similar and copycat too
Maybe I am missing it, but I don’t see IP address being given, ala robtex.com – WTF?
the information is useful, but what kind of business model they have?
One problem I’ve found so far is that if the domain has a dash in it (domain-name.com) it doesn’t work, says it’s not a valid search
hello,nice info available,i just dont know abt this site till few days back,but i got habituated to it and i became the regular surfer of this site. the blogs posted are very interesting and informative,tanx to whomso ever it may concern
regards
aartha
You are not wanted here.
keep going Gonzalo and team
Off topic but really funny. You’ve got to see this 64GB flash drive at Office Depot.
http://www.singlepill.com
It’s still on the front page.
Dataopedia is actually very useful, even if the idea isn’t exactly new
This site is crap. I am getting so many errors. At least if you copy, copy it properly. How can TC give so much PR coverage.
Good to see they are growing! Im an avid reader of killerstartups.com too.
Avid reader? Killer startups seems to just be a press release blog, and I doubt that there is an editor reading anything. Every once in a while they’ll run a press release for a company that doesn’t exist – I’ve hit numerous link farms off of their “stories.”
Just gave it a cursory glance so maybe I missed it, but I wish there was a way to flag outdated information or suggest additional information. Our multimedia section, especially, is sorely out of date.
I do like the “online” section, it’s a nice addition to the stats. Their access methods are cool, but they are going to have to get their data in line and tackle the apparent bugs before I’m going to want to access it through twitter, or any other way.
Great site, not new but great site. I contact websites all day everyday so any help finding contact information is great. Good Luck!
Really? I think any site that relies on Alexa data should be deadpooled automatically. Aren’t we passed the point where Alexa has any validity in regards to real metrics?
I find it hard to believe TC covered this site.
Brian,
You are right. That´s why TechCrunch isn’t so popular, and nobody knows Alexa. You probably have bigger projects.
By the way, they also offer Compete and Quantcast too. Big guys with big projects like you, that look down on TechCrunch, Alexa and Dataopedia, should know about them, and should pay more attention.
Touchy much? I don’t look down on TechCrunch. I read it every day. Not sure why you have to attack me for my opinion.
The reason Alexa was so popular is because Amazon pushed it. When you got dollars, you get eyeballs. I assume since you are attacking me that you think Alexa data is the way to go? How is Alexa toolbar users an accurate representation of the internet population?
I like Quantcast. They let sites actually install tracking code for direct measurement. The others are sketchy at best, that is, of course, you are a very large site with mass appeal with lots of traffic data available. For this mid-size to small sites out there, this data doesn’t allow you to do much with it, because it isn’t accurate if you compare it to data from Google Analytics, for example.
Awesome! I’m a fan of KillerStartups, even though one of my projects (yonkly) is closesly retlated to Twingr.
- Scott from http://yonkly.com
Nice service. It’s definitely useful and has some very cool features. I currently use SiteRapture (http://www.siterapture.com), TradeVibes (http://www.tradevibes.com), and Crunchbase (http://www.crunchbase.com) to get information on websites / online services.
Very useful informations, but when you looking for nonexisting domain return 404 page (that default, really ugly, 404 page)
This is a complete rip off of… http://www.quarkbase.com/
That idea is great indeed, similar to TC but every one can chose what to use.
Yet, still lot of bugs to fix
great site. another useful estimator for the value of each website is http://www.estimix.com. this one is my personal favourite because it seems to provide much better traffic information.