Write to Lizette Chapman at Follow her on Twitter at a point now where our servers are going down., ""I make customer intros, but it kind of sells itself,"" said Mr. He pointed to Diffbot being used with within apps at AOL, OnSwype and others.
Individual investors include Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of YouSendIt and executives from Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo.ĭayton, who visits the start-up about once a week, has helped with hiring and in talking to customers. Tung said that along with expanding the team with a few key hires, Diffbot will expand from the current two categories in news and home pages it now covers to the other 16 or so.ĭiffbot investors include Stanford accelerator StartX, where Tung is still an entrepreneur in residence, as well as Matrix Partners. ""We're at a point now where our servers are going down,"" he said, referring to the increasing demand by developers for the technology. Tung, who heads the six-person team, said he waited as long as he could to raise the seed round, which closed this month. They then use that data for applications they're developing to mobilize websites, migrate content management systems, generate tags and aggregate articles, among other things. Investors Back Diffbot’s ‘Visual Learning Robot’ for Web Content,dT20:15,Lizette Chapman,WSJ,"Palo Alto,Diffbot,investor,Brad Garlinghouse,content management system","So, just like people, Diffbot looks at a webpage and instantly identifies the important objects on the page while stripping out other components like advertising banners and privacy policies that are not core to the person's reason for visiting the page.ĭiffbot makes its APIs available to developers-the Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up is now processing 100 million API calls each month-who are using it for to transform the web into a usable database. Title,date_str,author,siteName,tags_label,text,sentiment,pageUrl,quotes_quote,
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