Recommendations engine DirectedEdge opens up to developers

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Really nice to seem directed edge is 'language agnostic' and has provided a lot of pre-cooked interfaces for their API. PHP, Ruby, Python and Java ready to go.<p>It wouldn't be a big deal for people competent enough to use the API in the first place to cook something up but it will definitely help speed up adoption and cut down on debugging time.

Just for clarification, we've of course been open to developers in the past, what's new here is that we've created a free developer's plan:<p><a href="http://www.directededge.com/signup-developer.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.directededge.com/signup-developer.html</a><p>And of course all of the stuff about Shopify integration, which we're really excited about:<p><a href="http://apps.shopify.com/shopify_applications/e7d74dd9b5d86c9cd9478738abf621bb" rel="nofollow">http://apps.shopify.com/shopify_applications/e7d74dd9b5d86c9...</a><p>More on that here (which I just posted separately, since that's mostly a separate story):<p><a href="http://blog.directededge.com/2010/01/06/directed-edge-shopify-easy/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.directededge.com/2010/01/06/directed-edge-shopif...</a>

What I'd like to see is sites like HN using tools like this. So that rather than see some kind of popular consensus about what makes a "good" posting, I see (or have the option of seeing) the kind of thing that <i>I</i> want to see.<p>EDIT: And if done right, it could render questions like this one irrelevant: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1035206" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1035206</a>

I think you guys should have links to some of your customers on your sales page, so that new customers can see how this actually works on other sites(without having to visualize how they'd implement it on their own site)<p>Something like "________ is using DirectedEdge to recommend _____, "after installing DirectedEdge our sales went up 15%!!!omgWTFBBQ!" - CEO of ______

I have an idea that I've been planning. It's got a lot of little pieces, and one by one, I've discovered that someone else is already making them. It's pretty great living in the future.

Congrats guys! Very cool!<p>I'd like to sign up for a trial, but I have to provide my credit card information first. That's awfully annoying. Is there any chance of removing that requirement?

Just a quick, unrelated question wheels...<p>How many of you are there at DirectedEdge? I read that the article said 'cofounder' so I assume there is at least one other?<p>Great work btw!

Who owns data that companies expose to directededge?

Awesome news! Congrats Scott!