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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Answers to Recently Asked Questions about UNIX.COM Post 303030217 by wisecracker on Thursday 7th of February 2019 07:31:55 AM

02-07-2019

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Hi Neo...

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All over the world there is a decline in the interest in forums due to the fact that it is easier to simply find the solution to our problems using Google. How are we going to address this?

This is an interesting question. When we do a Google search we generally end up at forums and similar technical sites because our questions, or a similar questions, are likely to have been asked and answered before. Hence, forums are very critical knowledge-building communities because without these sites, their would be little to find when we do a Google search. Google is not the "knowledge creator", Google is the "knowledge indexer". Of course, this site was much more active in the early days of the Internet before there were so many great knowledge repositories for UNIX and Linux, including this one. UNIX.COM was one of the first moderated forums to focus on a high signal-to-noise ratio related to UNIX and Linux technologies. We are constantly working to make the site easier to use and more fun for all our valuable members.

I can unequivocally say with experience that UNIX.COM does come up a lot when I am searching GOOGLE for results to some of my esoteric ideas posted on here.
It is always about how you search. After years of use I still haven't got the hang of that major detail yet as it is always down to how deeply one understands the subject one is searching for.
RudiC has recently posted some hum[-]dinger solutions to bash string handling and I would never know how to search for those with my level of shell scripting knowledge, BUT, and a big BUT, these rarities are now in the internet ether because of just that, they ARE so rare and few people other than the _hardened_ pros' would know about them.

Stack Overflow comes up a lot but this site certainly sees its fair percentage of GOOGLE hits, heck I even posted a thread about this some time ago.
Also judging by the number of newcomers, almost daily, then they must get the UNIX.COM badge from somewhere, and that somewhere is a search engine and more than likely the GOOGLE one.

My 5 pennoth.

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creepy

CREEPY(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CREEPY(1)

NAME

       CREEPY -  A geolocation information aggregator

DESCRIPTION

       creepy  is  an application that allows you to gather geolocation related information about users from social networking platforms and image
       hosting services. The information is presented in a map inside the application where all the retrieved data is shown accompanied with rele-
       vant information (i.e. what was posted from that specific location) to provide context to the presentation.

FEATURES

       Map providers available :
	      Google Maps - Virtual Maps - Open Street Maps

       Location information retieval from :

       Twitter's tweet location:
	      Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device.

	      Place  (geographical  name)  derived  from  users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates
	      using geonames.com"

	      Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the  bounding  box
	      is selected randomly.

	      Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API

	      EXIF tags from the photos posted.

       Social networking platforms currently supported:
	      Twitter

	      Foursquare (only checkins that are posted to twitter).

       Image hosting services currently supported :
	      flickr - information retrieved from API

	      twitpic.com - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

	      yfrog.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      img.ly - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      plixi.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      twitrpix.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      foleext.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      shozu.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      pickhur.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      moby.to - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

	      twitsnaps.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      twitgoo.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

NOTES

       Automatic caching of retrieved information in order to reduce API calls and the possibility of hitting limit rates.

       GUI with navigable map for better overview of the accumulated information

       4 Maps providers (including Google Maps) to use.

       Open locations in Google Maps in your browser

       Export retrieved locations list as kmz (for Google Earth) or csv files.

       Handling twitter authentication in an easy way using oAuth. User credentials are not shared with the application.

       User/target search for twitter and flickr.

AUTHOR

       creepy was written by Yiannis Kakavas <jkakavas@gmail.com>

       This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation which includes the keys descriptions is in /usr/share/doc/creepy/README.

								   MAY 08, 2011 							 CREEPY(1)