Monthly Archives: July 2010

Web scraping – the Jekyll and Hyde of Web 2.0 (part 2)?

Posted on 29 July, 2010 by Alex

In the last post I wrote about a positive use of web scraping, the software process used to extract data from the HTML mark-up language used on websites. I highlighted Planningalerts, a web and phone app to deliver real-time information … Continue reading →

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Web scraping – the Jekyll and Hyde of Web 2.0 (part 1)?

Posted on 28 July, 2010 by Alex

Two media reports this week have highlighted the way in which social media and web 2.0 applications can use “web scraping” in very different ways and for very different outcomes. Web scraping is a specialised software-based process used to extract data … Continue reading →

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