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Now, if I asked most people what is meant by 'online web scraping,' I'm guessing that most would have to Google up the phrase to understand exactly what it's all about. For those of you who aren't sure, I'll tell you now. In simple terms, web scraping (also known as web harvesting or web data extraction) is the art of extracting bulk data from websites. While it can be done manually, the most efficient method is to use an automated process to copy the information. The concept of the web scraper online involves the mass copying and consequent retrieval of data from websites to your database ...  More

Considering that we think of ourselves as a reasonably tech savvy race, I find it quite amazing that over half of all small businesses don't have a website attached to their organization. When quizzed, it seems that a great many of these companies consider a website to be too expensive to set up and too complicated to take on. And, to be quite honest, they're probably dead right. A traditional HTML website could cost you thousands of dollars to set up and run. What's more, unless you're prepared to get into a bit of coding, you'll have to get in touch with your web designer every time you ...  More

One of the great advantages of living in Europe is that you are just a hop, skip and a jump away from some of the greatest and most beautiful cities in the world. So much so that you can jump on a plane for a quick weekend getaway whenever you like and it's not going to cost you an arm and a leg to do it. With a trip lasting just a few hours you can leave your office on a Thursday or Friday afternoon and be checked into a hotel and out for dining in Paris, Barcelona, Prague or Rome at a reasonable time the same night. What's more, if you have the right connections, you can get some amazing ...  More

Do you remember those heady days when the main people that our banks existed for were the people who invested in it - regular folks like you and me? It wasn't so long ago. The thing that kept banks in the business of banking back then were the small and medium sized businesses and mums and dads. It was their regular injections of cash that forged the great banks as we know them today. Unfortunately, the whole emphasis changed when big companies started to throw their weight around and shareholders became the major priorities of the banking world. In fact, the last few years have been a bit ...  More

If you're concerned that your email campaigns aren't having quite as much effect as they could do, you should probably pay some attention to this app review. The fact is, email recipients are pretty blaze these days when it comes to email campaigns. You see, they get so many messages in their inboxes that they can quite easily gloss over a regular email whether it's a message from you advertising your services or one from a Nigerian Prince offering to share his wealth. When they are personalized, however, it's a completely different ballgame. When you see an email with your name on it, the ...  More

Have you ever watched one of those cooking shows like Anthony Bourdain on TV and seen him served an amazing delicacy that you've never heard of or seen before? He's probably in some tiny bar high up in the hills of Vietnam or somewhere like that and it's a local chef cooking up something delicious for him. The dish looks absolutely amazing and Tony is going into raptures about it. Boy, you would love to try it. You'd try to create it yourself but you don't think you have the skills and it might be a little difficult to find the ingredients in your local 'hood. The next best thing is to ...  More

The way we react to advertising has changed markedly over the last few years. Most of our person to person advertising used to come through our letterbox not too many years ago. To counter it we put stickers on our letterboxes that say 'no junk mail.' Advertisers got the message and, pretty soon, it was all coming through our email in the form of spam. To counter that, we put filters on our email to send it straight to the rubbish bin before it even hit our eyes. It's not that we don't want to receive that stuff because, in many cases, there's some great deals hidden amongst the ...  More

The gathering of information has always been a time-consuming affair. Even more so if there isn't a computer close at hand and there are paper forms to fill out. But this is the 21st Century and there's always someone out there spotting problems and working on trying to find an easier way. And so it came to pass that JotForm Mobile Forms was born. This free, form building app for Android and iOS turns your mobile or tablet into a data collection pod that can be used whether you are online or off. It is the perfect conduit for organisations to collect data offline yet stay connected while ...  More

It's a sad thing to report but it's probably easier to sell a bad product in great packaging than it is to sell a good product in bad. We, as a race, are immediately drawn to a well-designed package with the right name, color scheme and wording attached to it than we are to a white box with little on no design characteristics to grab our attention as it sits on a supermarket shelf. That's why companies often spend as much time and money on the development of a name and package design as they do on the product itself. And, in some cases, we're talking thousands and thousands of dollars ...  More

Many companies have gradually built up their array of apps and software over the years to enhance their business. It might have started off with email marketing one year and then a lead nurturing one the next. Each year they’ll do a fine job and you'll add more and, pretty soon, you'll see your desktop filling up with icons. Now the thing is, do they all work in conjunction with each other to form a seamless marketing platform? In a lot of cases, the answer to that question is no or, if you're lucky, they do to a certain extent. The really big companies have the money to be able to ...  More