Mozenda and the Zen of Screen Scraping
September 27, 2011
Mozenda, or “More Zenful Data,” is offering a new approach for comprehensive web data gathering. Their “zen” business style combines with a functional SaaS application to create a new productivity tool. We learn from the company’s Web site:
This concept of creating a productivity tool rather than another application for the IT department resonated well with existing Mozenda customers. In 2008, Mozenda accomplished this goal by launching the first of its kind Software as a Service (SaaS) application for performing comprehensive web data gathering (a.k.a web data extraction, screen scraping, web crawling, web harvesting, etc.), data management, and data publishing. Mozenda, or “More Zenful Data”, is now a reality.
Customers like Attensity and Yahoo! are using Mozenda to obtain content. So when you can’t or don’t want to search using human power, Mozenda could be a good alternative for generating relevant content. An affordable and compelling option, Mozenda will easily compete in the field. Screen scraping is an interesting technical function, and it is one which may lead to some dust ups between content owners and those who repurpose the content. Aggregating many different factoids into a giant repository can reduce some production costs, but the method can put the squeeze on those who create original information.
Emily Rae Aldridge, September 27, 2011
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