Category: Internet

Secure server firm Protonet crowdfunds $1M in just an hour and a half

June 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Looks like there’s a new record for the fastest crowdfunding of $1 million, and it ain’t for a movie this time – it’s for a server company that’s trying to wean businesses off the public cloud. I wrote about Protonet, a German startup that makes secure servers for small teams, last July. It was just after the Snowden revelations began, and the company had duly picked up a $1.2 million investment to help it attract business customers who were suddenly extra-cautious around U.S.-hosted cloud services. There’s no sales pitch like being told your current supplier could be forced to give up your sensitive information to foreign spies. Now Protonet is onto the third version of its orange box. This …

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Secure server firm Protonet crowdfunds $1M in just an hour and a half

Web Scraping: Getting Data from Awfully Complex Websites

June 3, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Intro In this article, you will learn about some tools for scraping and parsing data from websites with Ruby, Capybara, Nokogiri, Firefox, and PhantomJS. We will then try out a script that does site scraping by launching a separate web browser. Next up, we’ll launch a headless browser to do the same thing. Finally, we’ll wrap it up in a server side sinatra app for Heroku. Challenge Find active health professionals teaching recent classes Practice scrapping data from websites Search by studio ID on MindBody Online Prereqs Command Line Script using an automated browser instance Let’s check out Kali Yoga Studio in Columbia Heights. We want to see classes that are posted and click on….

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Web Scraping: Getting Data from Awfully Complex Websites

The Conversion Optimization Flaw You Need to Know

June 3, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You tensely sit at your desk and watch the data pour in from the first few days of your new conversion optimization campaign. Not good – no sales and no inkling of a winning variant. As the days turn into weeks you feel your blood pressure rise as you stare at the site intently, as though you could simply will conversions to happen. Of course you cannot. Every time the phone rings, you hope it isn’t your client. You would rather receive a call from the IRS than see your client’s number come up. You start to panic because you are spending your client’s money on PPC and labor and are not …

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The Conversion Optimization Flaw You Need to Know

Google’s Matt Cutts On Assessing Quality Of A Page Without Links

June 3, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In the latest video by Google’s Matt Cutts, he talks about how Google may determine the quality of a page of content without there being many links. By Matt’s expression, he seemed to give off the feeling that without links, it is really hard for Google to determine the quality of the page. He said, you have to go to pre-Google days, how search engines worked before links, and look at the words on the page. Matt explained you need to judge the content based on the words on the page and the more often the words are on the page, in a diminishing scales type of way, the more likely the page is about that word. Google also uses a factor…

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