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I’ve known PHP and Perl for some time now, so I decided it was time to learn the other ‘P’ in scripting: Python! There is a lot of documentation on the Python website, but I would recommend two books available freely online to get started, Dive into Python and A Byte of Python.

Looks like I missed this one back in December, but Revenue Science (formerly digiMine) has gained an additional USD$25 Million in VC funding. This brings total funding to $70 Million. digiMine was co-founded in 2000 by Usama Fayyad. Later the the consulting arm was spun off as the DMX Group and the company renamed to [...]

I previously blogged about advertisers going troppo for The Million Dollar Homepage. Well, online advertising is hot all over the net and is gaining on all traditional mediums fast. Australian Internet advert spending was AUD$620 Million last year, and will be AUD$1 Billion by the end of the year. Interestingly Internet advertising only accounts for [...]

A new service has just launched in the U.S. that allows people to quickly and easily get a estimate of the value of any house in the country. Taking in moutains of data the website predicts the value based on tax record and historical data. While not a official valuation, it is a free service [...]