This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. Metadata’s not the most exciting topic for Sourcebook readers, but it ...

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This article explains what regex (or regular expressions) is and how to get started using it with web crawlers, plus some interesting real-world use cases. One technology skill that is too-often ...

Nearly a year ago, Google announced that they had begun extracting metadata from microformat and RDFa markup on pages to display “rich snippets” in search results. They recently expanded this support ...

Have you ever found yourself drowning in a sea of unstructured data, wishing for a tool that could make sense of it all? Whether it’s extracting key details from an image or organizing scattered text ...

Metadata has been a popular topic for several years, but in many cases, the discussions have fallen short. Frequently, the topic of preserving metadata during file transfer is discussed, but this use ...

A rogue iOS application can gain access to limited geo-location information by obtaining image permissions and extracting GPS coordinates from locally-stored photos. Fastlane Tools (now part of Google ...