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Overview: Extracting article text from HTML documents

tomazkovacic.com

The majority of methods presented in research papers from that epoch are nowadays useless due to strong assumptions and heuristics that don’t apply on today’s web development practices. In the following chapters I’ll try to review some article text extraction methods that are applicable to today’s websites.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. When web browsers (the programs that can read and interpret HTML) were popularized they were “dumb.”

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. At the same time, tools that until yesterday were considered “less professional” or “not advanced” are replacing the more complex tools originally built for developers and geeks.

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WordPress vs Webflow

ConversionXL

Because they have been around for over two decades, they have an incredibly engaged community, and many developers and tools build their applications with WordPress in mind. . Image source ). WordPress is also incredibly customizable, though you might need to tap some developer resources for the final touch. Image source ).

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

They’ve released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play around with real production code, and modify the base examples for their own use. Your goal should be to make it as simple as possible for a developer to immediately start using your API in ways relevant to them.

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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

www.readwriteweb.com

Thanks to Apples iOS and Googles open source Android OS, smartphone and tablet apps have enjoyed a period of astounding success over the past few years. But with the rise of HTML5 , the next generation of the Webs markup language HTML, the attractiveness and functionality of mobile websites has gotten richer and more interactive.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.