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Data Mining / Content Aggregation History:
Today SOAP API's, XML, RSS feeds and even remote database access have given companies the ability to cooperatively exchange data easily and efficiently. These content exchange services make it easy to share information, but have not always been available. In the past, some companies such as Vignette developed expensive Content Management tools such as the Vignette CAS (Content Aggregation Server). These tools were developed with a fancy Windows GUI, database integration, etc and could cost companies over a million a year in contract fees!
Luckily, today things have changed. Data mining, or scraping content from the Web, can be done with PHP/MySQL techniques. Data can be extracted from HTML, XML, PDF and just about any other textual content. Contact me for more information and I'll be happy to discuss the many possibilities.
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Last Modified: Dec 7, 2009 .