Category Archives: business

Asking data questions of words

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

The vast majority of my contributions to the web have been loosely encoded in the varyingly standard-compliant family of languages called English. It’s a powerful language for expressing meaning, but the inference engines needed to parse it are pretty complex, … Continue reading →

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Getting SkilledUp

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

Guest Post by SkilledUp‘s Nick Gidwani. ScraperWiki is a revolutionary tool. Not just because it allows you to collect data, but because it allows anyone – including journalists who now must specialize in data – to organize and draw conclusions … Continue reading →

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My time at the Autocloud

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

The global CADCAM behemoth known as Autodesk hoovers up another small company every two weeks — a process unlikely to diminish following a $750million bond issue last month. (Well, what else are they going to do with that money?) It … Continue reading →

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Announcing ScraperWiki Premium Accounts!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

The most exciting bit about ScraperWiki is how it forms a link between two very different worlds. On the one hand, we love the public good that data liberation enables, and we’re used by everyone from journalists (did you see … Continue reading →

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Welcome Jane, from Ubuntu, to ScraperWiki’s board

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

What’s a company’s board of directors for? Ultimately it’s to hire or fire the CEO. But that doesn’t happen very often. What happens more often is board meetings. But what are they for? They give directors a status update, and … Continue reading →

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$1 million to build a data platform

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Sometimes the easiest way of being authentic is to just post an email that was written to be private… Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:29:57 +0000 From: Francis Irving <francis@scraperwiki.com> To: team@scraperwiki.com Subject: Capital! Today we closed our round of … Continue reading →

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Our friendly competitors / partners

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

I made this diagram a few months ago now (for VCs), that shows the world of online data collaboration and scraping from a ScraperWiki point of view. It shows the kind of companies and technologies that, if ScraperWiki were to not … Continue reading →

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