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Does anybody know a provider offering TV listings (through API or download) for all channel and cable providers?
Or is there any independent company collecting/providing such data?
An API/REST/SOAP interface would be great.
The MythTV folks have gathered resources for various countries here. If you're in the US or Canada, they recommend the Schedule Direct service.
These services are generally based on the XMLTV data format/toolset.
Rovi offers both SOAP and REST APIs for TV listings. It supplies listings for all channels of the cable, satellite, and broadcast services in multiple countries. Rovi is the source the cable companies use. See this website.
Schedule Direct doesn't grant commercial licenses. I'm checking out tvrage as mentioned above and Rovi right now.
Edit: If this is a commercial project, I recommend contacting Tribune Media Services (click "License our Content" in the footer at Zap2It.com). That was the solution I chose for my company, simply because they were much more prompt in their response than Rovi. The paid listings are XML files.
If all you need is a non-commercial license, SchedulesDirect works very well. If you have questions about their licensing, they encourage you to ask. We started using their listings and then had to change tack because of licensing issues.
You could contact staff of WebTelevideo at info#webtelevideo.com that has solved your problem. They may provide you an account to their own API.
WebTelevideo API has TV Scheduling for many countries and metadata (actors, directors, plot, trailers, posters etc..)
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So my clients came to me with their eCommerce kiosk running Internet Kiosk Pro. The kiosk accessed their normal eComm store which was a very bad idea and we are working on a kiosk friendly store now.
In looking at the kiosk software I found it is Russian in origin and (call me a bigot) but I'm a little concerned by that given the amount of bad press around the Russian Mob and credit card scams.
Does anyone have good intel on Ixis Research LTD?
Anyone know of a set of kiosk software they feel is verified as secure and made by reputable folks?
Am I being paranoid to worry about this? I feel strongly that this "black box" could be a tool to collect valuable private information.
// 8.24.2012 Update
One last comment on this- Authorize.net "certifies" Provisio's SiteKiosk but if you ask Provisio about PCI compliance you get a stock letter about how that isn't their problem and is not germane to their product. This mishapen sentence pasted in from their document: "PCI compliance to a large extent deals with storing and securing cardholder data. SiteKiosk does not store any cardholder data which eliminates the need for the store and secure cardholder data. The customer data is stored, transmitted, and processed through the payment gateway." They do go on to say that you should get your own certification for the kiosk machine, network hardware and config, and software on the machine. They do not offer any third party analysis or certification as proof their product is secure.
Normally any software application that is handling credit card account data should go through PCI-DSS audit by a certification company that will perform a set of tests on the software and provide a report on any ways that the software failed the audit.
Here is a description and documentation on the PCI standards. I have worked with an auditing firm called Coalfire with the point of sale application with which I work.
So the first question is whether the kiosk software has been through the PCI-DSS compliance audit or not. The major credit card vendors are getting more and more sticky on this point.
After reading about STUXNET and other types of malware, I am not so sure that firewall restrictions will make much of a difference since after all you are installing and configuring the software per the instructions from the vendor including any firewall configuration changes the vendor requires.
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I have been looking around and noticed that ecommerce sites are not using social auth and i am building an ecommerce site and wanted to know the reasons for not using social auth.
It depends, will you be storing credit card details? You might hit some problems with PCI compliance if purchases can be made through social network logins.
If you're just using it as a useful way of signing up, you should be OK.
In a recent survey my employer conducted, we established that in younger (<30 years) users there was a perception that they did not want to link financial data with there social networking data due to, primarily, a lower level of trust in social networking brands, w.r.t visa et. al
I would never trust any site that allows me to login with my Facebook account. Too much risk for getting my user and password sniffed out and abused.
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Does anyone know if there's a good voice authentication library available? Or do I need to find a good voice recognition library and build from there?
There are several open source packages implementing speaker recognition. For example Mistral
http://mistral.univ-avignon.fr/
There are clones of mistral too
http://code.google.com/p/improved-mistral/
Speech Recognition is usually quite different from voice authentication (often called voice biometrics). Here is a good overview document - http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/authentication/exploration-voice-biometrics_1436 says:
There are consultant companies such as J. Markowitz, Consultants who
rank voice vendor software. These reports are often available for
purchase online. One vendor’s implementation may be more suitable than
another depending on the use case. Nuance (www.nuance.com) and Vocent
(www.vocent.com) are two vendors who provide voice authentication
solutions and who came up repeatedly in the research for the “Current
Applications” section of this paper. Nuance has been rated the top
voice authentication technology vendor by Celent Communications.12
Nuance claims a 96% or higher accuracy rate for speech recognition13,
and Nuance’s Verifier product claims a “high” accuracy rate.
That is a good overview, but it is a little out of date. Look around for others such as:
http://www.persay.com/technology-voice-biometrics.asp
http://www.voxeo.com/biometrics/home.jsp
http://www.nuance.com/landing-pages/enterprise/voice-biometrics/default.asp
http://www.angel.com/products/voice-biometrics.php
http://www.voicevault.com/voicevault-enterprise/
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There are good online store building solutions like Shopify, Volution, etc.
I'm looking to build my own small-scale service like that.
Are there any customizable online store building scripts I can install on my own server or companies that offer reselling opportunities?
VirtueMart is another very simple e-commerce app that my clients have used very successfully. It's based on Joomla, but still is an effective and easy tool to deploy.
I'll warn you, there's not a ton of money to be made building e-commerce "services" to resell. There's a million and one people doing it and it takes a LOT of work to get right. Not to mention the heartburn that goes along with payment processors and dealing with fouled transactions, which happens to the best of systems. People don't have a ton of patience when it comes to credit card transactions and I found myself doing tech support at the worst possible times. These are HIGH MAINTENANCE apps if you're not just doing it for yourself...
Magento has a pretty sweet multi-store setup. My company runs a fulfillment house using a single magento install and a store front for each individual client. All our orders are visible under the central dashboard and it's easy enough to create new stores once you get the hang of things.
Check it out here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/multi-store-retailing-magento-demo/
Note: Magento has a very steep learning curve, not recommended for beginners.
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I'm using Google Custom Search on a client website. They are not very happy about rival companies showing up on sponsored links on their own site. I know we can use Google Site Search but it has an annual fee. I've been looking all around for a Free/OpenSource alternative for Google CSE, but found little I can use. Anyone have any suggestions?
Check this question. What is a good search engine for embedding in a web site. IMO if the client dont want to pay for a search engine then they will have to live with the advertisements if they want a good search engine.
Google has a paid version of search. You can read about it here. We use it in our intranet.
Check out the Google JSON/AJAX Search API. It's a lightweight way of doing a query and returning pure search results that you can then display.
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/
Search is very big business right now because it is relatively immature as an industry - similar to the OS industry many years ago. Anyone with something good is going to charge for it. The open source community will only catch up when the core concepts around search stabilize and become more widely understood (and therefore reproducible). Right now much of the basics are still trade secrets.
Short answer - if you want something even remotely as good as Google, expect to pay for it.
You can block your competitors just as with AdSense, "While AdSense allows you to filter ads by URLs, you can also filter URLs from your search results within your CSE account." - https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=91652
The Austrian company Mindbreeze ( http://www.mindbreeze.com/index_en.html ) has a good alternative site search for websites.
You can test it here for free: http://www.mindbreeze.com/RegisterInSite.html
opensource alternative:
http://lucene.apache.org/