Mashup Contest Winner Achieves His Aim With Mozenda
Jeff Scott had come to the 2008 Mashup Camp programming event as a recent victim of the struggling economy. The layoff from Yahoo! didn’t keep Scott on the sidelines for long.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) June 3, 2009 -- Jeff Scott had come to the 2008 Mashup Camp programming event as a recent victim of the struggling economy. The layoff from Yahoo! didn’t keep Scott on the sidelines for long. Instead he mashed together his recent experience with large doses of imagination, seasoned it with optimism to win the Best Mozenda Mashup prize of a Dell E248WFP 24-inch Widescreen Black Flat Panel LCD Monitor for his inventive mashup titled I NEED A JOB. So effective was his winning mashup software that it enabled him to land a position as Publisher and Editor of 148Apps.com, an iPhone App News and Review blog launched in 2008.
Scott designed his Mashup to help people who are now or soon will be out of a job. The mashup takes the text from your resume or a URL pointing to your resume or Linked In profile and processes the text through Yahoo! Text Extraction to get key terms about you, your skills and job experience. Then it processes over 50,000 Craigslist.org listings all harvested from the Craigslist site by Mozenda looking for the best matches for your skills. It then ranks, by city, the best places for you to look for a new job possibly giving you some options you wouldn't have considered previously.
According to Scott the speed with which one can get set up for creating, testing and scraping templates with Mozenda was most impressive. “The quick setup and testing is the killer feature,” said Scott. “What Mozenda does isn't unique, it's the way they do it that rocks.”
Mashup Camp is a production of Techweb’s Aleternative Events Group which aims to bring Internet developers and attendees into close proximity in an unconference-style event. The first Mashup Camp took place in February 2006. Like many others at the event, Scott’s primary motivation was to learn new technologies. His success with Mozenda's powerful data harvesting web crawler shows that Mozenda has a wide range of applications for savvy individuals, agencies and businesses. Mozenda software allows users to unlock and harvest all types of information from the web. The Mozenda is a data management platform allows users to combine and use data from multiple sources. The information, once collected, is stored on one of Mozenda’s secure servers and can be exported in a variety of file formats or systematically accessed through Mozenda’s REST API.
About Mozenda
MOZENDA is a Salt Lake City tech firm specializing in the
development and sale of web data extraction software tools -
http://www.mozenda.com. Its cornerstone product is the
patent-pending Web Agent Builder 2.0, a web data extraction
tool that grabs precise website content and organizes it
into useable formats.
Mozenda.com
Brett Haskins
Mozenda Inc:
577 E. Technology Ave. Building C-2300
Orem, UT 84097
801-995-4550
801-770-2021 (Fax)
brett.haskins(at)mozenda.com
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