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I got so tired of this problem I created my own service: http://www.ectofeed.com/ It takes a bit to set up the filters, but once you do it gets rid of all kinds of junk. I've exper…

Thanks for the feedback. We anticipated that one of the initial critiques would be that it requires some work up front, which is true. It's really not much of a bubble to get over,…

Here's the home page: http://www.ectofeed.com/. We're currently in an invitation-only beta, but our video tour should give you a pretty good picture of what it's all about: http://…

Someone once gave me this bit of advice that usually seems to work for me: "Sometimes a little inaccuracy can save a whole lot of explanation."

I worked with him for about a year several years ago (before he got into Ruby). For the most part, his personality is just as you see him in his writing. He's very intelligent, whi…

Add an RSS feed. I doubt I would visit worthyy.com everyday to see what new site is being highlighted, but I'd definitely take a look if it showed up in my feed reader.

This might help: http://blog.screen-scraper.com/2007/03/01/how-to-surf-and-sc...

Love your home page. Very nicely laid out, clean design. You do a great job of presenting all of the major facts in an easily-digestible format. Also, embedding the video right in …

This might be informative: http://blog.screen-scraper.com/2008/04/21/screening-scraping...

I'm with screen-scraper, ( http://www.screen-scraper.com/ ), and we've dealt a lot with scraping real estate data. Building a generic crawler for this kind of thing is quite a bit …

You ought to check out screen-scraper ( http://www.screen-scraper.com/ ). It's a commercial app, but the best I've used for this kind of thing. They also offer a freeware version.