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The online world of data and analytics is fast approaching epic portions. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. Why? Because, not only has big data been big business in 2015 … but posts,…

“Originality is the art of remembering something but forgetting where you heard it.” Case in point, especially when it comes to running an online business. Why? Because in today’s online marketplace, sales,…

Robert Collier, the great ad man of the early 20th century, once summarized the secret of all effective marketing as entering “the conversation already taking place in the customer’s mind.” That’s powerful…

A few days ago I’ve released an open source Python module that provides you with a simple way to extract and normalize the publication date of any online blog or news post….

Big data is big business. And for good reason. As Harvard Business Review recently reported, an exhaustive study of 330 North American companies led by the MIT Center for Digital Business in…

Let’s be honest … social media is a challenge. Not only is staying current, active, and “topped off” a chore, but crafting full-scale campaigns that contribute to your business’ and brand’s actual…

We have created a fun little experiment, letting you navigate in a 3D universe of real data from the open web. The data is made out of important news and blog titles, their meta-data…

I’m very happy to let you know about the launch of our extended access to 30-days of historical data from Webz.io, which is available to our paying customers immediately. No waiting list….

In order to write an efficient crawler, you must be smart about the content you download. When your crawler downloads an HTML page it uses bandwidth, memory and CPU, not only its…

On my previous post I wrote about a very basic web crawler I wrote, that can randomly scour the web and mirror/download websites. Today I want to share with you a very simple…