This coming Sunday is the big Bay Area data mining “unconference“, and with more than 200 people already signed up, it’s going to be a lot of fun. I’ll be presenting at some point during the day – since it’s an unconference, you don’t really know who’s going to be talking about what/when. My topic is “Elastic web mining using open source (Hadoop/Cascading/Bixo) in Amazon’s EC2 cloud“. If you scan more…

And that’s good news for our customers! In their official announcement, Amazon said: Finally, we are also lowering prices on all Amazon EC2 On-Demand compute instances, effective on November 1st. Charges for Linux-based instances will drop 15% — a small Linux instance will now cost just 8.5 cents per hour of computing, compared to the previous price of 10 cents per hour. Since your Bixolabs usage fee is based on more…

It’s time to raise the curtain a bit on our new web mining platform. We’re currently running test crawls for early partners, and tuning up the GUI for the Bixolabs admin console. In the meantime, we’ll be adding more details to this site about web mining in general, and how Bixolabs deals with some of the very unusual issues you run into while crawling the web (video poker link farms more…