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    ScraperWiki: Wrapped Up in Time for Christmas

    Knight 2011 News Challenge Winner
    Nicola Hughes

    by Nicola Hughes (Bio), December 14, 2011

    Tagged: christmas, features, holidays, scraperwiki, user experience, ux, videos

    shiny-digger.jpgCome the holidays, we all like to do ourselves up -- a new frock for the party season, or a post-Movember shave. We all like to look our best in preparation for the Christmas glut.

    This extravagance now extends to the web. But instead of adding a bit of snowfall, ScraperWiki has driven that further mile and added a whole host of UX features to our site!

    ScraperWiki is a developer platform that aims to liberate data from the web, build upon this information to make useful applications, and get journalists and developers working together in a wiki-like fashion.

    There are too many new UX features to enumerate, so I made a couple of videos (best viewed full-screen):

    You can also check out our latest features by finding us on Twitter and Facebook and reading our blog.

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