DEMO: 80legs promises web crawling for the masses
In tech, it’s trendy to offer something “as a service” — to deliver it online, usually for a subscription fee. We’ve seen software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, data-as-a-service, and more. Now a startup called 80legs says it’s selling web crawling as a service.
Web crawling means browsing and indexing online content in an automated fashion. Its most prominent usage is in creating the databases for search engines like Google, but it’s important for anyone who wants to find content… Continue Reading
Twitter went main street yesterday, goes enterprise today
Last month, micro-blogging site Twitter went mainstream, at least according to my own litmus test: The hosts of my local radio station here in the Bay Area talked about a guy who lost his job offer from Cisco for tweeting how he hated the job. And my hairdresser told me she finally was on Twitter, after saying in February she’d never heard of it. Twitter is everywhere.
And now, in April, Twitter is going one step… Continue Reading